[smitchell2]

Back in 1984, I purchased Turbo Pascal 2, and had several decent contracts writing various sorts of software.

In 1985 I wrote a simple programmers text editor in it (I really had no idea what I was doing - I learned as I went along), and released it as shareware.

Folks started sending me checks, and by 1988 I had to hire staff to help me process and ship orders, do tech support, and so on.

We peaked at 15 employees in the mid-90's. While I eventually converted everything to C, I still have very fond memories of Turbo Pascal. Those were the days!