Dave Plummer

And at lunch, I'm sitting in the food court with the old and the bored, and I'm reading a book that I had bought called Microsoft, or Bill Gates and the Making of Microsoft.

Hard Drive, I think is the title.

And it's a great book.

It's just sort of a matter-of-fact history of how Microsoft came to be, what it's like, how it operates, what the people are like there.

And I'm reading this book, and I become really entranced by it and fascinated because it sounds like exactly the place that I want to be, but I'm in Saskatchewan, so what am I going to do about it?

And what I wound up doing was I had put myself through school with a program called HyperCache, which is a file system cache for the Amiga, because the Amiga didn't have any out of the box.

And it had done reasonably well.

And so I went through my registration cards because in those days you had a four by six card that people would fill out with their name and their address.

And if they had an email, their email, and they send it in, they get notifications of updates and so on when it's shareware.

And I went through the whole stack looking for anybody with a Microsoft email address.

And I found maybe three or four people and I just cold emailed them and said, hey, I'm a operating system student in Saskatchewan looking for an opportunity.

I don't remember exactly what I said.

But one guy, Alistair,

Alistair Banks, he wrote back and he said, I know somebody that I can put you in contact with.

And he put me in contact with a guy named Ben Slivka, who did a phone interview, who eventually wanted to hire me to work in MS-DOS for the summer.

So that's how I got there.

Yeah, it made decent money.

I mean, I sold a couple thousand copies, 20 bucks a copy or 40 bucks a copy.

What language was it written in?

C. C. So there were some assemblers.