Bob Weber (of W&W Software) "Interview"
(May 18, 2003)

By Adam Trionfo

     On the Bally Alley discussion group I exchanged a couple of posting with 
Bob Weber of W&W Software, maker of about fifty or so Astrocade programs.  
Here's our question and answer session:

Adam - Who was the other "W" in W&W Software?

Bob - The other "W" was my wife, Jeri. She did all the business work for the 
company, getting a DBA, maintaining checking accounts, etc.

Adam - Could you give a little history of yourself; of your company?

Bob - I became interested in computers at a very early age.  I read a lot of 
science fiction and was always intrigued by the stories involving computers.  I 
made first contact in 1967 at RETS Electronic school.  They had a training 
computer called the Bitran 6. I was hooked from then on. I taught myself 
programming on a reverse polish notation calculator that was able to run 72 
step programs.  Next came the Bally with its unique tiny basic, and finally, 
the TI99/4A.  I've done a little programming since then, but there is so much 
available on the Internet, and so little time, I have given up programming in 
BASIC.

Adam - Could you make this official, and donate your programs into the public 
domain?

Bob - All my programs are public domain.  We really did not sell very many back 
then, and it was mostly for fun.  We sold them to try and cover the expense of 
tapes and mailing. I think altogether we only took in about $200.00

Adam - What type of software and hardware did you use (Bally BASIC, Blue Ram, 
Keyboard, printer, etc)?

Bob - I eventually had it all.  I had a Blue Ram, a keyboard, and a thermal 
printer.  There was a Blue Ram kit you could buy back then and a lot of us 
assembled our own to save money.  Those were the days, huh? 


End of Interview