FORTY YEARS!

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
>FORTY YEARS! I've been in the software business forty years today, first as
>Rasmussen and Associates and later as Rasmussen Software Inc. I started out
>by purchasing a desk, a typewriter, an answering machine, and a 2-line phone.
>Not even a computer.

Congratulations Bob!  40 years ago, the closest thing I had to a
computer in my business has an HP-97 calculator which was less
expensive than a Radio Shack Model I, and had a builti-in thermal
printer and used programs stored on magnetic strips (which I
still have).

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Bill
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