fp Avg Developer/User age

Thu Jan 4 18:22:04 PST 2018

Ken tells me that it was near Times Square when it was wall to wall
hookers. When they were staying late at the office trying to get a new
version out the door, they would send Ken out to get pizza. Since Ken is 6'
5", the muggers left him alone. (There was a woman co-worker who was 4' 11"
and she got mugged more than once in broad daylight). Little did the
muggers realize that Ken is the biggest smush on the planet. I had to teach
him how to make a proper fist so when he punched someone, he wouldn't break
his own thumb.

Ken also tells me that Bill Prady (The  Big Bang Theory) was part of SCC.
They didn't have money for a receptionist, so Bill put a pink sweater on
the receptionist's chair so it would look like she had just stepped out.
Yes, the characters in the show were based on SCC programmers. Raj couldn't
talk to women, Ken didn't talk to me for the first 6 months after I joined
to company.....coincidence? I don't think so....

Laura Brody

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at verizon.net> wrote:

> Too bad you never saw the NYC offices.
>
> I remember driving up to Hawthorn to pick up new version of filePro for
> myself and some clients.        Before moving to Maryland in 2005, I used
> to
> drive up the Taconic to a friend's vacation home outside of Hudson.  I
> would
> have flashbacks of exiting to get to SCC on some of those trips North.
>
> I still prefer phone tech support to having to write the issue out.  At
> least on the phone one could kind of tell if the support person understood
> the question or they could ask for further explanation.  Oh well, we do get
> answers for the current support system although it may take a few responses
> on both parts.
>
> Richard Kreiss
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
> > bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Laura
> Brody
> via
> > Filepro-list
> > Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 5:32 PM
> > To: bill at celestial.com; Filepro_List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> > Subject: Re: fp Avg Developer/User age
> >
> > 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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