During college I took on a data entry position with limited programming at the VAR (Computations) that sold me my 286 PC. Withing 6 months my employer recognized my potentiaal and replaced there dBase programmer. Computer Science mind thinks logically and leant itself perfectly to Clipper (dBase compaticble language).
I had a great aptitude for Clipper. The language was so versatile. During Summer '87 teamed with Compuserve users and rewrote some internals for my uses. Cliper 5.0 came out and added 4 objects and support for macro blocks (pointers) & arrays. These opened the world, limit was only your imagigination & DOS of course.
Left Computations Howard Systems consulting, where I worked at Ralston Purina doing some fine work and completed my library. There did some mainframe CDC to PC bridging and a Pet Show scheduling software program. Included marketing & sales inventory as well as legal & licensing information. I also consulted on a L
Next got a job with DMCI (Data Management Consulting Information) and here I worked on a Clipper program for manufacturing. Our team pushed the Clipper Object Envelope. We ustilized Macros, Preproccessor, C, and internals to implement a custom object creating language extension. In fact a language known as Class(y) was developed simultaneously by a Compuserve collabrator.
My last major DOS/Clipper project ws with Saga, Inc. I never applied or sought this VAR. My peers recommended me. This VAR (Saga, Inc.) a legal Software vendor. They were in trouble non-stop data corruption. Only 60 Client sites and 40 joined in class action lawsuit. I implemented FlexFile Memo (Fox memos for Clipper), also revamped/focused hardware vendors & requirements. Restructured support staff & sales. Reworked the internals of the product and made it more user friendly, transaction logging, data corruption integrity checking, and tracking users. Saga grew from 60 (40 dropping and in RED) to 110 clients within a year, within 3 years had 430 law NY firms. Endorsed by NY Bar association.
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