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myth_drannon
on Sept 13, 2022
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The last person standing in the floppy disk busine...
I'm actually reading a book about these shareware businesses. It was quite profitable selling them for 4$-7$ and they were popular. They would start as one person and occasionaly grow into huge operations involving hundreds of employees.
ok123456
on Sept 13, 2022
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What's the book?
myth_drannon
on Sept 13, 2022
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Shareware Heroes
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61272567-shareware-heroe...
JKCalhoun
on Sept 14, 2022
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Oh yeah, Richard Moss. Nice guy.
wizardfeet
on Sept 14, 2022
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That's me. Hi John! Lovely to run into you here. You still at Apple?
I'd be happy to email you a PDF copy of the new book if you're interested.
JKCalhoun
on Sept 14, 2022
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No, I retired last Fall. Keeping busy here:
https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt
Sure, send me a PDF!
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