fp Avg Developer/User age

[Laura Brody]

I never went to a Don Mackay seminar. The name is totally unfamiliar to me.
I went to a couple of conferences run by John Esak (Ken went with me, but
it was before we were dating). My surname was Weathers at that point. Ken
and I got married in 1996. Maybe you are thinking of someone else like Sue
Wasserstein or Sue Kirschbaum? I don't recall giving anyone an earful about
ABE=ASCII.  I joined SCC after they moved from NYC to Hawthorne, NY in
1989.

Laura Brody

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
>
> >Looks like am the old man at 74.
>
> Moi aussi.
>
> >Started programming on a model 2 (1980) with profile and h ad to learn how
> >to write print drive in assembler to use with my 9 pin dot matrix printer.
> >Replaced the Model 2 with a Model 16 and the hard drive with Xenix and
> >Profile 16.
>
> That's similar to my experience on Microcomputers after I quit racing cars
> full time in 1980.  I started working with computers in February 1966 as a
> Jr. Electrical Engineer at Bendix Radio, but all my experience was on
> mainframes, programming in FORTRAN, Assembly, ALGOL, COBOL, BPL, and
> various other languages between 1966 and 1976 when I quit to race.
>
> I went to work at a Radio Shack in October 1980 as an undercover computer
> marketing rep. in a small store in northern Virginia that didn't have an
> 'X' department.  The store manager was a corner worker and EMT at the
> sports car races who wanted me to sell Model IIs which weren't really
> authorized at his store, but Joe Collazo, the District Manager, had an
> office in his store, and would approve anything I sold.  I read several
> years of Byte magazine to get familiar with Micros.
>
> In January 1981 I moved to a Radio Shack at 19th and K streets in D.C.
> that had an 'X' department, working to Kevin Fowler and Ron Cohen, and was
> supposed to take over managing the 'X' department when Kevin and Ron went
> to the new Radio Shack Computer Center (RSCC) that was being built on M
> Street a block or so from this store.  John Esak was a computer marketing
> rep. at the new RSCC when it opened, and I learned a lot from him about FP
> and Profile II then.
>
> I left Radio Shack in October 1983 when one of my customers hired me to be
> V.P. of his software company in Seattle to develop software for the
> building and construction industry where we were working in Xenix on the
> Model 6000.  I did a lot of work with FilePro 16 there, integrating it with
> Radio Shack's version of RealWorld accounting software.  I left that
> company at the end of 1984, and started Celestial Software working closely
> with Don Mackay at the local RSCC to develop FP software for his business
> customers.  I met Laura Brody at one of Don's seminars (she blasted me for
> posting about ABE=ASCII on a Usenet or Compuserve group saying it was
> proprietary :-).
>
> I worked extensively with FP developing software for a large appliance
> retail store near Seattle, but ran into the too many files limitations on
> Xenix, and moved my system to the Unify RDBMS where this wasn't an issue
> although it required I write all my code in 'C'.
>
> >Small Computer was located on 41st street at the time which was just
> around
> >the corner form my office on 40th St and 7th Ave in NYC.
>
> ...
>
> Bill
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