"...here's the scoop; most of which is true:
1980	Bert Kersey starts Beagle Bros on his kitchen table with a 16K Apple II and a quarter-page ad in Creative Computing.
1982	Bert hires Mark Simonsen to answer technical calls and write Beagle software.
1985	Mark and co-Beagler Alan Bird split from Beagle Bros and start The Software Touch.
1987	Mark buys Beagle Bros from Bert, and Bert moves to the country to raise gophers.
1988	Mark hires Bert to write this catalog on his kitchen table.
(to be continued)"