OT: What Goes Around Comes Around

[Bob Stockler]

For some reason or another I started reading on the InterNet
about Joseph Desch, who worked at National Cashregistor Company
(NCR) in Dayton, OH.

I learned that he was responsible for the -very- -first- digital
computer (and it was developed at NCR under his direction [1]).

Years after then, when I was in the retail Dispensing Eyeglasses
and Hearing Aids businesses, my mechanical NCR bookkeeping machine
quit working and my 79 years old bookeeper retired at the same time.

My accountants (Coopers Lybrand at the time) recommended that I get
a Radio Shack MODEL II computer and their business software stuff
to run on it.

The trouble I encountered with that solution was that the compiled
COBOL Accounts Receivable program printed its statements in ALL
CAPS, which I didn't like.  So I learned to print them to s spool
file and learned enough BASIC programming to write a program to
read that spool file and massage its contents to my liking.

Then I got PROFILE II, and so --- here I am.

Bob

[1] - I think IBM played a part in that (I recall, as I type this
      on my IBM ThinkPad).

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