Welcome to The DesignWare History Thread. For the purposes of an interview I'm giving this week, I'm going to write here about the threads of my life “from the vantage point of my company D … [Read more...]
DesignWare’s Legacy
Chapter 7 of 7 in the DesignWare history thread. In late 1984, MSA announced it would divest or shut down Peachtree Software, as well as DesignWare, Eduware and Blue Chip Software. The announcement … [Read more...]
Becoming an Integrated Developer-Publisher
Chapter 6 of 7 in the DesignWare history thread. By 1983 we were publishing and shipping titles under the DesignWare label. A very different proposition from just working with other publishers. … [Read more...]
Building a DesignWare Team and Becoming a Corporate Author
Chapter 5 of 7 in the DesignWare history thread. OK, so I had the basic idea of a computer interacting with a human, and discovered that programmed instruction had been tried, and computer-based … [Read more...]
DesignWare’s Founding
Chapter 4 of 7 in the DesignWare history thread. In 1976 I was doing my thing to advance online medical education. Using minicomputers and video terminals at Pacific Medical Center in San … [Read more...]