FORTY YEARS!

[Richard Kreiss]

I programmed a Monroe calculator which could have been used a a terminal. 

It “fell off the back of a UPS truck” so I was told. 

It had a TI-56 which connected to a printer base and used those magnetic strips to hold programs and data. I programmed this to do a monthly report for the Woolworth Company. I once delivered the report on the “adding machine” roll pAler from the printer. 

I to still have that machine and mag strips. I don’t think that those work anymore. 

I have often thought of writing this in filePro. It would be faster and I could print the report on legal size paper in landscape. 


Richard
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> On Nov 2, 2019, at 8:03 PM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> I had something similar, maybe HP 41C? Printer was a side option, I think. I modelled my business income on it.
> 
> Here's an interesting question for all: what have you programmed that's not a computer, per se? I can think of:
> 
> * Programmable calculator
> * Daisywheel printer
> * Laser printer
> * Dot matrix printer
> * VCR
> * Thermostat
> * Light switch
> * Modem
> * Router
> 
>> On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
>> 
>>> 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).
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Bill
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