William Bill Murphy for the Intuitive Accountant writes: As the story goes, one day Scott Cook and his wife were sitting around the kitchen table asking the age old question, “how do we balance this checkbook”? In their mind there had to be a better way. Scott, based upon his experiences at Proctor & Gamble, when coupled with his awareness of the emergence of personal computers thought there might be a market for software that would help people keep their checkbooks balanced as they paid their bills.
A short time later, Scott Cook, began looking for a computer programmer and found Tom Prolux, with whom he formed Intuit in 1983. The first version of Quicken was coded in Microsoft Basic for the IBM PC and Pascal for the Apple II; by 1984 they were beginning the first testing of Quicken. Not only was Quicken innovative in its functionality from a personal finance standpoint but it quickly made computer software history by becoming the fastest installing program which permitted users to print a check. By 1985 Intuit was also doing something no other software vendor had done, ‘shrink wrapping software and manuals’, within a few years every other major software vendor followed suite. [snip]. The article continues @ The Intuitive Accountant, click here to continue reading....
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