“I really wanted to get into the business of producing software – I was really into computers,” said Zachmann. For his first year on campus, his room was situated right across from the mainframe computer center, so it was easy for him to spend the wee hours making progress on his various projects. Zachmann says that he got into programming because it was “way better than cleaning toilets.” He worked at Kodak during his final years of high school, and when he moved on to study at the University of Rochester, he continued to code as a means of making money. Luckily, even in those days, they knew what a backup was.” So, the first thing I did after about two weeks was flip the wrong bit and completely delete their payroll for the week. “It was so early that this was actually the computer that Kodak used to generate their payroll, because they didn’t have very many computers.
“I ended up programming on this PDP-8,” said Zachmann, speaking to Digital Trends. Halfway into his second summer scrubbing floors and sweeping staircases, he was offered the opportunity to start programming for the photography giant. Mark Zachmann’s journey into the world of software development started at Kodak, where he was working as a janitor. People love this software, and it was a labor of love for the people who made it.
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