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MICROTIMES APRIL 1985 “Everybody has talent. We just decided to help foment the revolution by liberating people’s artistic imaginations. Our own brand of subversive software.” David Balsam. “We have a lot of fun with all the ideas that go flying around here. It’s sort of like reaching a creative critical mass.” Martin Kahn. The home computer market is an interesting thing to study.
In the early 1980s, if you wanted posters to advertise a yard sale or a party, your options were pretty limited. Main Menu of Broderbund’s The Print Shop You could get some blank sheets of paper and some crayons or felt markers for the whole do-it-yourself experience, which was cheap but unless you were a professional illustrator the results were bound to leave something to be desired, if not be…
You might have got the impression, upon entering Jane Smith’s house (sometime in 1986) that her husband was in the process of renovating their kitchen, the sound of a power tool growling and grinding away in the background. But you would’ve been wrong. No, what you heard was not the result of some sort of buzz saw or drill but rather the then-ubiquitous noise generated by the household’s 9-pin…
A 1983 photo of the Carlstons: Doug (left), Cathy (centre) and Gary (right) Brøderbund Software Inc. was founded by brothers Doug and Gary Carlston in 1980 after Doug had written Galactic Empire, a space strategy game, on his TRS-80 (retro-trivia: many of the locations in the game have names taken from African languages, based on Doug’s years in Africa).