Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California software company, sells a program called Softporn for $29.25. In the computer fantasy game, players seek to seduce three women, while avoiding hazards, such as getting killed by a bouncer in a disco. About 4,000 copies have been sold, says On-line Program Designer...
...Daniel Fylstra, 30, who co-founded the firm with $500 three years ago, saw sales rise to $4 million last year and expected his gross to triple this year. Now he believes that sales will be "substantially more" than that. The company's first product was the game program Microchess, but its bestseller is VisiCalc, a $200 program used by businessmen to make financial forecasts. Total sales of it to date: 150,000 copies...
Microsoft. Best known for its version of the program-writing language, BASIC which has sold more than 500,000 copies so far, Microsoft (projected 1981 sales: $14 million) was founded in 1975 by William Gates, then an 18-year-old Harvard student. Gates now oversees a staff of 96 at the firm's headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. Growth has come so fast that Gates has not yet found time to finish his degree at Harvard...
...future, it may be more difficult for new companies to enter the rapidly maturing industry. A current case in point is Plum Software, established last January in Los Gatos, Calif., to market Filewriter, a program priced at $9.95 that can alphabetize lists on Apple computers. Despite three classified ads in computer magazine, no products have yet been sold. But that has not discouraged the company's founders: Steve Grimm, age 12, and Nikolai Weaver age 11. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...story of one particularly memorable concert in New Orleans, at a convention of the National Conference of Americal Choral Directors. The convention featured concerts by choral groups of all kinds, from elementary school kids' choruses to large professional groups. The Harvard Glee Club sang the last pieces in the program. "It was a twenty minute program," Krieger says, "and we sang really well. Almost as well as we had ever sung. Afterwards, someone came up to me on the bus and said, 'You're part of the Harvard Glee Club, aren't you? If it hadn't been for your...