Robert McCulloch

Design Weaver Marketing

My name is Robert McCulloch and Design Weaver Marketing is the name of my business.

Robert McCulloch Starts Working with Computers

I have been working with computers since about 1982 when I got my first computer, a Timex Sinclair 1000.

Next it was the incredible Commodore 64 with 32 times more memory than the Timex Sinclair. The year was 1984 and I was sure I would never need another computer again.

Then came the IBM PC and hot on it’s heals the Apple Macintosh computer. I was sold by the revolutionary user interface of the Mac and went to the Apple Computer Store to try and buy one. But they turned me down for the credit needed to buy the Mac and I was heart broken.

As it turned out, it was a good thing Apple thought too little of my finances and turned me down. Soon after the Compaq was selling like crazy the first 100% IBM compatible computer, but it was over priced at about $3,000 to $4,000. Then Daewoo came along with the Leading Edge Model D with an Intel 8088 microprocessor at 4.77 MHz, a floppy drive and 256K of RAM.

ComputerLand was the place that gave me credit and changed my life forever. From that day on I would never give the Apple Macintosh a second thought.

Robert McCulloch Gets a Computer Job

Ventura Software, a division of the Xerox Corp. - San Diego, CA

Technical Support and Quality Assurance
From there it was not long until found a Desktop Publishing program called Ventura Publisher and went out and paid $250 for the software. Soon I found out Ventura Software, a division of the Xerox Corp. was in San Diego not far from where I lived in La Jolla! So I went and applied for a job and they hired me! I started out testing Ventura Publisher and then went on to Technical Support and Customer Service.

Sometime around 1990, Xerox sold Ventura Publisher to Corel and the company packed up and moved to Canada shortly afterwards.

Atech Software - Carlsbad, CA

Technical Support and Customer Service Manager
I jumped ship a about two years earlier and went to start a Tech Support and Customer Service department at Atech Software of Carlsbad, Calif. We were selling a collection of  fonts that included more than 200 typefaces for Windows and DOS called Publisher’s PowerPak. Font styles included italic, condensed, bold, bold italic and hollow. But Microsoft had TrueType Fonts in the works and it was only a matter of time until the third party font business would be history.

 SunBurst Computers, Carlsbad, Calif.

International Sales and Inside Sales Support
Sparc Notebooks by RDI, Proxmia and InFocus LCD Projection Systems

CGA Computers – San Diego, CA

White Box Computer Sales
San Diego computer manufacture in Sorrento Valley. CGA developed the first online computer configuration application for their resellers.

AGE Logic - San Diego, CA

Technical Support and OEM Training
Robert McCulloch joins AGE Logic, AGE Logic developed a Windows based X Windows Server application that allowed Unix and Linux X Windows applications to be displayed within the Windows and DOS environment.