In his 1986 book, Software People, Doug Carlston described Broderbund’s early history as follows:
When my brother and I started Broderbund Software in 1980, we hed no idea that it would become one of the largest home computer software companies in the word . In fact, we originally entered the software business by accident. We had no business plan, no scheme to make our fortunes. We were just trying to come up with a way to pay our next month’s