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Reminds me of the guy (Mitch Altman) that invented the tv-b-gone, a universal remote that turns every TV off. He made a small fortune off of that and now goes around teaching people IoT and the like.

I'm sure he's on here, if so, hello and thank you for the neat synthesizer board project o/

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I have one. It's fantastic. Although, I don't see as many televisions in public spaces anymore. Maybe because now it's smartphones that anesthetize the masses.
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What was the product?
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I can't find any references to the company online anymore. The product was a c++ interpreter (created from the founder's compiler class project) and IDE. This was before java/python/javascript/etc. The interpreter would catch errors and you could mix interpreted code and binary code. Pure software displaced it.
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viaweb, adobe, microstrategy
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