Celebrating 25 years!
Nancy Palmquist
nlp at vss3.com
Tue Nov 1 08:45:56 PDT 2011
Congratulations, and many more ahead I am sure.
A career well built.
Nancy
On 10/31/2011 9:17 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> No, that's not twenty-five.
>
> In 1979 I decided that NCR was keeping too much of the money I was making
> them, after working for them almost a year and a half. So I bought
> a desk and an answerint machine, and started out as "Rasmussen and
> Associates". After a while I decided that sounded too much
> like I was selling Amway, so I incorporated as Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>
> I started out doing consulting, including for NCR which had produced an
> 8080-based system built into a desk that was so simple that "the
> salesperson can install it". Hah!
>
> In 1981 I bought a Heathkit microcomputer for something over $2000. As a
> kit. In order to do remote support, without buying a dumb terminal (which
> would have cost MORE than that), I programmed my Heathkit to act like a
> terminal. It was written in BASIC with some hand-coded machine language
> for communications on the CP/M operating system. Heath got bought by
> Zenith. That software became An NCR Zenith Input Output program, thus
> ANZIO.
>
> I could go on, but I won't. Happy Halloween.
>
> Regards,
> ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>
> personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
> company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
> voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
> fax: (US) 503-624-0760
> web: http://www.anzio.com
> street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
> 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
> Portland, OR 97223 USA
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