OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[Bob Stockler]

Bill Campbell wrote (on Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:09:41PM -0700):

| On Sat, May 06, 2006, D. Thomas Podnar wrote:
| ...
| >The first time I booked a suite at the Tandy Americana during a users
| >conference to show our our products was quite interesting. I don't drink
| >and had no idea how to stock a bar (just that I'd need one to help
| >motivate people to come up to the suite), so I enlisted the aid of someone
| >who had more experience. I'm not sure if I remember exactly, but I think
| >the mix was distinctly heavy with good Kentucky Bourbon. 
| 
| Stocking bars was one of Bob Snapp's specialties.  I remember sharing a
| ride to the airport with Bob from a TCBUG conference.  The ride was at 7am,
| and Bob had a drink in his hand.

Actually, unstocking them was his real specialty.

But that 7am drink is hard to classify . . . was it his final
drink of the day before or the first drink of that day?

Never-the-less, I classify him as one of the few geniuses I've
been priviledged to know.  He had no academic background in
computers or computer programming.  His introduction to computers
came when he was the in-house accountant for a company in Ohio.
The guys(s) in charge of their IBM computer(s) wouldn't give him
the information he wanted, so he snuck the manuals out of the
site, took them home, and learned to how to get what he wanted.

His address-matching, address-correction  programs, written in
filePro, were good enough to get him hired as a consultant to
the US Postal Service.

Bob


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