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My journey into personal computer software development in 1983

In 1983, Personal Computers were quite the up and coming thing. You could buy your own for a few thousand dollars. Though they were mostly considered toys by many East Coast programmers (more expensive "workstations" were the rage), there had already been some interesting and promising applications developed for it.

But being super-programmers, they were very annoyed that somebody from an unknown (programming-wise) university would come in and solve those complex bugs without breaking a sweat or without spending one single evening on the premises. As I mentioned earlier, Tracy Licklider and the super-programmer in-clique were busy trying to resolve the mysterious dilemma of how (a) I could be an Indian and not from a known programming school and (b) I could still fix bugs and add features at this amazing rate. Non-management and non-programming personnel, such as quality assurance, accounting, sales, even front-desk, frequently sought me out to tell me about the good things they had heard about my work.

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