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Originally Posted by Sea Hero
I made a lot of money off of Multicaps when it was a DOS program.
John got the last laugh on BRIS. Part of the settlement was that he turn over the rights for Multicaps to BRIS. He wrote it in an obscure programming language, and BRIS's programmers couldn't figure it out. They ended up hiring John, and he moved from Vegas to Lexington> I fell out of touch around 2000, but as far as I know, he worked for them for a long time after that, possibly until his passing.
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It was written in CLARION, my language of choice.
The NEWest MULTI-CAPS was written in WinDev, (my second language of choice).
John bequeathed me the source code to the NEW & unfinished MultiCaps.
Would love to find someone who could finish it for John's Widow.
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I believe John was also the guy behind the PP Generator, which was another of the free software programs offered at BRIS.
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I don't believe that is true because I do not have source for that.
He was, however, the resident expert on all that stuff.
Funny story about John & me.
PART 1
We first met in 1990 when I was stumping my first product in SoCal. I'd traveled from Reno and, 8 nights out of 11 I was doing in-home workshops in peoples homes.
John was a ThoroBrain user who made quite an impression.
I recall that during the meeting he attended, he was seated on a couch the entire time.
PART 2
Years later, when we became real friends via telephone & later Zoom, we had a conversation about that initial meeting.
I'd mentioned something about John's physical size.
My memory of him was that he was a big man. (He cast a large shadow, at least based off my initial impression.)
When I told him that, he laughed and asked me how tall I recall him being. When I said 6'3", he laughed even harder.
He was 5'4".
But he absolutely did cast a giant shadow.
PART 3
I had to fly to Las Vegas to see that for myself. LOL
