The first project I worked on was for Liberty Drug Systems in 1985. It was written in dBaseII and ran on TI PCs running DOS 1.X with 5MB hard drives. We could open only two files at a time. It was spaghetti code designed by a guy who sold systems to newspapers and a pharmacist. I helped deliver and support the first 50 accounts in NC, VA and WV. I understand the company was sold and a VFP version is still out there being sold.
I put myself about and began working for a furniture manufacturer and a local cosmetic surgeon. We spent a couple of years creating inventory systems for cost accounting. The surgical software company got sold and it was around for years, but I've since lost touch.
Around 1990, I designed a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan admin system and maintained it for a couple of years until the company folded.
In '93 I began designing systems to manage county mutual insurance companies and over time created a half dozen.
About that time I also began helping a local company grow to $10M in yearly sales of glider rockers. The owner was a cost accountant and over five years we created systems for GL/AP/AR, invoicing and inventory costing. Before the company was sold, we had the modules creating GL journal entries.
In 2000, I converted a Type II Serology application from FoxBase to VFP. It runs on PCs in hospitals all over the world, helping match organs for transplant.
Currently, I'm working on an interesting project which could turn into a big vertical.
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