Intuit's Checkbook program; it was first worked out in a dorm at Stanford in 1983
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Intuit - Wikipedia  Intuit Inc. is a business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, ... The company was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in Palo Alto, ... The two started Intuit, which initially operated out of a modest room on ... The first version of Quicken was coded in Microsoft's BASIC programming...
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Accounting for Intuit's Success [Entire Talk] - Stanford eCorner  Nov 4, 2015 ... What advice would you give to your 1983 self? ... the only way to pay bills was to write out checks, put them in an envelope, keep a record in paper and a check register, ... And this was a pattern I observed at P&Gwhere I had worked ..... And there was the first accounting software with no accounting in it.
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Free Flashcards about BUSINESS & INDUSTRY - StudyStack  INTUIT'S CHECKBOOK PROGRAM; IT WAS FIRST WORKED OUT IN A DORM AT STANFORD IN 1983, QUICKEN ... JOYCE HALL BEGAN THIS KANSAS CITY COMPANY SELLING POSTCARDS, HALLMARK. G.E. WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN...
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History of Intuit Inc.  FundingUniverse  1983: Scott Cook and Tom Proulx form Intuit. ... Cook, then only 23 years old, had moved to northern California in 1980 and was working in banking and ... Inspired to start his own software company, he went to Stanford University to place an ... In his dorm room he created the first Quicken program, which he and Scott used...
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history of quicken  copy page 1 - Intuit  An accidental meeting in front of the Stanford University library in 1983 ... Proulx, a computer science major, was in search of a new software idea; ... That first simple conversation would lead to the development of the ... and the company began unceremoniously in the dormitory courtyard. ... It Looks Just Like a Checkbook!
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Michael Dell: The Entrepreneur of the Year, 1989 | Inc.com  Jan 1, 1990 ... And Dell himself, for all the publicity, remains an entrepreneurial ... If Michael Dell knows how he built Dell Computer, he doesn't say. ... Company Name Dell Computer Corp. Founded 1984, in a University of Texas dormitory room .... a dream, but neither defined it in terms of company size or dollar value.
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The Mark I Computer at Harvard - Harvard University  Mark I was designed in 1937 by a Harvard graduate student, Howard H. Aiken to solve advanced ... Aiken's ambitious proposal envisioned the use of modified, ... Using company components, IBM engineers in Endicott, NY developed the ... Until the 1940s, mathematical problems and tables were worked by teams of dozens...
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Institute of Technology (Campus History) ending  petition to alter its identify to Florida Institute of Technology. In its brief history, ... intriguing tale of "Countdown College"-from the lift-off of Bumper eight in 1950, which introduced ... An must start who contingency advantages and contents for another website can help closing to have. .... refer sometimes always smaller. Create...
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JEOPARDY! Game - March 18, 2004  (9) In the 1970s this Stanford MBA founded what would become one of the nation's largest discount brokerages. $1600 - Steve. (15) His novels include "Beach...
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When the Intern Writes the Billing System - tghw.com  Apr 19, 2013 ... In the autumn of 2005 I was finishing an internship at Fog Creek ... (Yes, they had an intern writing the new billing system. ... They'd have to enter their credit card information every time they ... But every option had the same basic flaw: they could only do rigid, ... Cards check in, but they don't check out...).
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1986 | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum  Compaq beats IBM to the market when it announces the Deskpro 386, the first computer on the market to use Intels new 80386 chip, a 32-bit microprocessor...
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DELL | Stock Discussion Forums - Silicon Investor  Apr 22, 1999 ... He founded ... souped up IBM's own computers for less than IBM was ... from a dorm room at the University of Texas in Austin and then, ... was 1984; he did business for a time as PC's Limited), and ... that he started an important PC company at age 19, but that he .... PCs. Dell was selling $1 million per day
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The History of Fingerprints - Onin  HELP WITH HOMEWORK ... Established the first professional certification program for forensic scientists, the IAI's Certified Latent Print Examiner (CLPE) program (in 1977), ... These measurements were reduced to a formula which, theoretically, would apply only to one person and would not change during his/her adult life.
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Harvard Mark I - Wikipedia  The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called Mark I by Harvard University's staff, was a general purpose electromechanical computer that was used in the war ... Howard Aiken had started to look for a company to design and build his calculator in early 1937. After two rejections, he was shown a...
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Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free - The New York Times  Apr 4, 2001 ... By CAREY GOLDBERG APRIL 4, 2001 ... M.I.T. plans on Wednesday to announce a 10-year initiative, apparently the ... sites for almost all of its 2,000 courses and to post materials like lecture notes, problem sets, ... balk at paying about $26,000 a year in tuition when they can get all their materials online?
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UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk - CNET  May 8, 2009 ... Hackers broke into the University of California at Berkeley's health services ... able to match up those SSNs with individual names, Shelton Waggener, ... April 9, when a campus computer administrator doing routine maintenance ... until April 21, Waggener said, that officials learned data had been stolen.
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Full text of "Softalk V3n08 Apr 1983" - Internet Archive  Apr 8, 1983 ... In case of a tie, the mighty Softalk RFD (random fool designator) will ..... You use the developing marker included to reveal only as much as ... Prints lists, labels, and letters. .... Townsend Microware, 921 Wa- ter St., Box 1200, Port Townsend, ...... Easy Installation Compatible with Apple Stand Just clips on.
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June 15, 1911: Computing Tabulating Recording Company (aka IBM)  Jun 15, 2016 ... 1911  The Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) is ... Microsoft eXtended Basic (MSX); 1982  Arcades and the First Amendment ... Next story June 16, 1977: Software Development Labs (Oracle) Incorporated...
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Dell Computer Corporation - Big Doings in Room 2713  When Michael Dell entered the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he was already ... and professionals heard about his work and visited his dorm, Room 2713 in Dobie Hall. ... In January 1984, Dell formed a company called PC's Limited. ... began building and selling "clones"computers that were similar to IBM PCs.
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IBM Personal Computer - Wikipedia  The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. ... The generic term "personal computer" was in use before 1981, applied as early as 1972 to the Xerox...
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The History of Yale and Yale locks  OK. Lock, digital door locks, safes, padlocks, door handles ... In 1862, Yale Jr. introduced the Monitor Bank Lock, marking the transition in bank locks from key locks to dial or combination locks. ... its scope with manually operated chain hoists, battery powered platform trucks and in 1879 a line of padlocks was introduced.