Celebrating 2⁵ years!

[Brian K. White]

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.

And very well done I'd say. Very well done.


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bkw