@Turre @psf we really did think we were going to change the world, at #GeoWorks. Everyone was young. Our most successful hiring practice was to recruit interns from the University of California at Berkeley, basically across the road. These third-year electrical engineering / computer science students would work for us for six months, get credit and pay, work on really cool software and hardware, then we'd make some a job offer, and many would accept. I worked with the smartest people, there. I learned so much. I came in the "wrong way"; self-taught. I'm still friends with many of them. I'm glad you had a good experience with our software! It was a labor of love. Some made some money, most gained valuable experience. A few went on to greatness. A bit of trivia; Eric Schmidt (Google) was on our board, later in the game...

Cc @lahosken @witort @witort Did I get it right?

Back in '91 or '92, I was the commissioner of a rotisserie league for my college buddies. I bought a copy of USA today each weekday and manually tabulated scores. It was tedious, and I wanted a faster way to tally the scores.

I had a 286 MS-DOS PC with #GeoWorks, which included word processor and spreadsheet apps. I ended up using the spreadsheet app to enter game stats and let it 'do the math' for me. It was still somewhat time consuming, but I bet it cut my workload in half.

@gloriouscow take a look: #GEOS for x86 now #opensource :) https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

#geoworks #freegeos