My original motivation came from watching other students in school
show off with the fancy documents they were printing with their brand
new Macintosh machines--multiple proportional fonts at different
sizes, inlined images, etc. All other computer users were used to the
horrible monospaced dot-matrix output that every Epson printer spit
out. I checked out a friend's Apple printer and realized that the
printer itself was no better than my crusty Epson. Of course all of
the power came from the software, so that set me in motion.
Daisy-Dot received enthusiastic reviews in Atari-specific magazine
fossils such as Antic and Analog, and even got a great review from Computer
Shopper, which long ago ran a column about Atari computers. Thanks
to these reviews and word-of-mouth, more than 2,000 customers
registered their shareware versions of Daisy-Dot. I still have
hundreds of complimentary letters from people around the world. And
even to this day a few diehard Atari owners are still using Daisy-Dot.
Radik
I co-founded Radik
Software in early 2000.
Broadbase
From 1997 to 1999 I worked at Broadbase Software
(NASDAQ: BBSW).
Geoworks
Before coming to Stanford in 1995, I spent a year working in Berkeley
at Geoworks. Daisy-Dot
During high school my pathetic social life meant more time in front of
the computer. Over four years I developed three versions of
Daisy-Dot, text processing software (in the spirit of
TeX)
that allowed users of puny Atari 8 bit computers to print high-quality
documents on dot-matrix printers.