Comments on: Proud Member of the Cult of Buffet http://www.clwill.com/leadership/proud-member-of-the-cult-of-buffet/ Advice, Commentary, and Resources for Building World-Class Teams Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Ralph Smith http://www.clwill.com/leadership/proud-member-of-the-cult-of-buffet/#comment-2240 Ralph Smith Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:41:56 +0000 http://www.clwill.com/leadership/proud-member-of-the-cult-of-buffet/#comment-2240 Hi Chris, I don't know if you remember me but I was a salesman at Fox Software from 1989 to 1991. I was proud to be a part of the team that went to Las Vegas and help introduce FoxPRO to the masses. That was a very exciting week. I was the older guy working along with all those young people right out of college. I spent a total of 34 years working with computers from punched cards and IBM 1401 systems up to IBM 4341 models. In 1983 my job was eliminated at Johns-Manville and I started working witn PC's. I'm glad to see that you did so well at Microsoft and now have your own company. I read an article in Fortune a couple of years ago that Basel had started a company with some other people from Microsoft. He was my tennis partner at the Fox summer party at Sylvania country club and we won the round robin tennis tournament. I retired from active work in 2001. I still help out a few people who I worked for in the past from time to time. Do you still keep in touch with any of the original Fox group? I see Bob Ruple and Tom Lynch one in a while. I got to be friends with Marty's late father-in-law, Ralph Simon, through the local computer club. A couple of years before he died, the two of us drove up to listen to Bill Gates speak at COBO Hall. He had an advanced degree in library science and was an interestin man. I also see from the Internet that Dr Dave has quite a collection of rare violins. I knew that he was a violinist and had a few old violins when he was at Fox. I know you are a busy person, but if you finf time to reply to my email I would appreciate it. Ralph Smith Hi Chris,
I don’t know if you remember me but I was a salesman at Fox Software from 1989 to 1991. I was proud to be a part of the team that went to Las Vegas and help introduce FoxPRO to the masses. That was a very exciting week. I was the older guy working along with all those young people right out of college. I spent a total of 34 years working with computers from punched cards and IBM 1401 systems up to IBM 4341 models. In 1983 my job was eliminated at Johns-Manville and I started working witn PC’s. I’m glad to see that you did so well at Microsoft and now have your own company. I read an article in Fortune a couple of years ago that Basel had started a company with some other people from Microsoft. He was my tennis partner at the Fox summer party at Sylvania country club and we won the round robin tennis tournament. I retired from active work in 2001. I still help out a few people who I worked for in the past from time to time. Do you still keep in touch with any of the original Fox group? I see Bob Ruple and Tom Lynch one in a while. I got to be friends with Marty’s late father-in-law, Ralph Simon, through the local computer club. A couple of years before he died, the two of us drove up to listen to Bill Gates speak at COBO Hall. He had an advanced degree in library science and was an interestin man. I also see from the Internet that Dr Dave has quite a collection of rare violins. I knew that he was a violinist and had a few old violins when he was at Fox. I know you are a busy person, but if you finf time to reply to my email I would appreciate it.

Ralph Smith

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