Dan Brinklin
I was reading Dan Brinklin's blog today and it reminded me of an encounter I had with him many years ago. I was working for Alpha Software at the time and he was using our Alpha Four (or was it Alpha Three) DOS database product to run his business. I was in my mid twenties and Dan was already a legend in PC software. I think he was working on some tools to enhance DOS batch files or something, I forget the details, but one day my office phone rang and it was Dan calling to ask if I knew some memory addresses where his utilities could stash some data between invocations. That sort of low level details never been my strong suite and I had nothing much to offer, (I believe my only idea was to try and use unused memory on the video card), but the encounter stuck with me. I've always wished I had something more intelligent to offer.