<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>Laura Brody</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Jan 04, 2018, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:<br>
<br>
>Looks like am the old man at 74.<br>
<br>
</span>Moi aussi.<br>
<span class=""><br>
>Started programming on a model 2 (1980) with profile and h ad to learn how<br>
>to write print drive in assembler to use with my 9 pin dot matrix printer.<br>
>Replaced the Model 2 with a Model 16 and the hard drive with Xenix and<br>
>Profile 16.<br>
<br>
</span>That's similar to my experience on Microcomputers after I quit racing cars<br>
full time in 1980. I started working with computers in February 1966 as a<br>
Jr. Electrical Engineer at Bendix Radio, but all my experience was on<br>
mainframes, programming in FORTRAN, Assembly, ALGOL, COBOL, BPL, and<br>
various other languages between 1966 and 1976 when I quit to race.<br>
<br>
I went to work at a Radio Shack in October 1980 as an undercover computer<br>
marketing rep. in a small store in northern Virginia that didn't have an<br>
'X' department. The store manager was a corner worker and EMT at the<br>
sports car races who wanted me to sell Model IIs which weren't really<br>
authorized at his store, but Joe Collazo, the District Manager, had an<br>
office in his store, and would approve anything I sold. I read several<br>
years of Byte magazine to get familiar with Micros.<br>
<br>
In January 1981 I moved to a Radio Shack at 19th and K streets in D.C.<br>
that had an 'X' department, working to Kevin Fowler and Ron Cohen, and was<br>
supposed to take over managing the 'X' department when Kevin and Ron went<br>
to the new Radio Shack Computer Center (RSCC) that was being built on M<br>
Street a block or so from this store. John Esak was a computer marketing<br>
rep. at the new RSCC when it opened, and I learned a lot from him about FP<br>
and Profile II then.<br>
<br>
I left Radio Shack in October 1983 when one of my customers hired me to be<br>
V.P. of his software company in Seattle to develop software for the<br>
building and construction industry where we were working in Xenix on the<br>
Model 6000. I did a lot of work with FilePro 16 there, integrating it with<br>
Radio Shack's version of RealWorld accounting software. I left that<br>
company at the end of 1984, and started Celestial Software working closely<br>
with Don Mackay at the local RSCC to develop FP software for his business<br>
customers. I met Laura Brody at one of Don's seminars (she blasted me for<br>
posting about ABE=ASCII on a Usenet or Compuserve group saying it was<br>
proprietary :-).<br>
<br>
I worked extensively with FP developing software for a large appliance<br>
retail store near Seattle, but ran into the too many files limitations on<br>
Xenix, and moved my system to the Unify RDBMS where this wasn't an issue<br>
although it required I write all my code in 'C'.<br>
<span class=""><br>
>Small Computer was located on 41st street at the time which was just around<br>
>the corner form my office on 40th St and 7th Ave in NYC.<br>
<br>
</span>...<br>
<span class=""><br>
Bill<br>
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