![]() ![]() I can’t really even remember why other than thinking not a lot of software was compatible at the time, etc. I think he STILL uses it today….it looks like a DOS screen w/ tabs and fields to enter info.Īll of that said, he and I were COMPLETELY against anything that had to do w/ MAC. Anyways, he wrote his own and sold it to all the doctors in the So Cal area. Kinda like a propeitary piece of software that a health insurance company might use. haĪnyways, my Dad’s a doctor and back in the 80’s there weren’t very many useful programs specifically geared towards doctor’s needs- as far as patient info: subscriber, co-pay, etc. I learned how they worked from the inside out and can remember taking a computer apart and putting it back together (just to see if I could) at 12 years old. While growing up my Dad taught me everything about the PC computer and Windows. Mine actually starts with pc’s and only pc’s. ![]() Today I have 7 Macs of recent vintage on my LAN, and even a token WinXP PC Pentium4 laptop just “for looks.” ![]() After spending 8 years in Apple-certified repair, and 4 years in weekly newspaper desktop publishing, I can say I’m a fully-committed Mac-o-phile. After I retired from the AF, I got certified as the repair tech at an Apple specialist where my expertise with Apple’s Macs & LaserWriters got pretty good, to the extent that I broke down & bought a Mac IIsi system (later enhanced with a Daystar 040 card & SuperMac 24bit video card), and Personal LaserWriter IInt. I became “devoted” to that IIc, programming in Applesoft Basic, and enhancing it with 3.5″ floppies, an 8mHz Zip chip and Applied Engineering extra RAM cards, etc. He later turned down promotion to Major to go back to work with IBM, who had been paying him a yearly retainer. With nothing better to do, our talk turned to personal compters, and it turned out that he and his wife (also advanced CS degrees) both had Apple IIe’s, and he recommended I get an Apple IIc, that I still have and that still works with its external Chinook hard drive. He and I flew AF transports on long missions across the Pacific in the mid 80’s. My introduction to Apple computing was from the recommendation of a former IBM employee who had advanced degrees in computer science and had obtained several patents for IBM in the field of laser printing. ![]()
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