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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 06:55:19 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Walter Schmidt <walts@amanda.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: CM> Beta Testing, good examples.
X-To: "David S. Bennahum" <davidsol@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <199701240444.XAA22301@tam.dorsai.org>
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I'll let others file in any blanks - but for years I was a beta tester for QuickSoft's PCWrite - my word processor of choice, also for years.
I cann't recall the name of the owner, but he and his company really knew how to gain from his beta testers. Not only was there always several beta versions, but with each new beta there was included a complilation of the prior version's found errors - both corrected and not - at one time there was even a private forum on CIS of us - so we could get and give immediate feedback.
I can remember thinking more than once as a new beta, and eventually the final release version, was released - now this is a way to run a beta - the testers saw that they results were important and acted on - and the end user got one-heck-of-a-product!
Now if only others would have been part of QuickSoft's beta group and try to continue their work...
By the way, a bit of QuickSoft Trivia. There was [in most final versions] a Sanskrit prayer rem'd as part of the first few lines of code. If you still have a version of PCWrite laying around - go take look.
Now while the folks at QuickSoft did admit to it - I never got them to explain why... Perhaps as each of us PCWrite users loaded the program each day, it was like a pray wheel being spun, Perhaps it was put there for people like me to find and add an air of mystery!
--- REgards, walts@dorsai.org - Walter C. Schmidt, CPA Blue(.) --- - - ClubIE Team 1 | X ---
- - SBNL2 | "Like the mountain, be still and unmoving - -
--- APCUG Treas | waiting for the right moment... ---
- - | to engage the flow" ---
- - 52 Ken | http://www.dorsai.org/~walts/ Sun 57 - -
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Walter Schmidt <walts@amanda.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: CM> Beta Testing, good examples.
X-To: "David S. Bennahum" <davidsol@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <199701240444.XAA22301@tam.dorsai.org>
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I'll let others file in any blanks - but for years I was a beta tester for QuickSoft's PCWrite - my word processor of choice, also for years.
I cann't recall the name of the owner, but he and his company really knew how to gain from his beta testers. Not only was there always several beta versions, but with each new beta there was included a complilation of the prior version's found errors - both corrected and not - at one time there was even a private forum on CIS of us - so we could get and give immediate feedback.
I can remember thinking more than once as a new beta, and eventually the final release version, was released - now this is a way to run a beta - the testers saw that they results were important and acted on - and the end user got one-heck-of-a-product!
Now if only others would have been part of QuickSoft's beta group and try to continue their work...
By the way, a bit of QuickSoft Trivia. There was [in most final versions] a Sanskrit prayer rem'd as part of the first few lines of code. If you still have a version of PCWrite laying around - go take look.
Now while the folks at QuickSoft did admit to it - I never got them to explain why... Perhaps as each of us PCWrite users loaded the program each day, it was like a pray wheel being spun, Perhaps it was put there for people like me to find and add an air of mystery!
--- REgards, walts@dorsai.org - Walter C. Schmidt, CPA Blue(.) --- - - ClubIE Team 1 | X ---
- - SBNL2 | "Like the mountain, be still and unmoving - -
--- APCUG Treas | waiting for the right moment... ---
- - | to engage the flow" ---
- - 52 Ken | http://www.dorsai.org/~walts/ Sun 57 - -
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