Celebrating 2⁵ years!

[Bob Rasmussen]

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