Cassette, the program that launched my computer career. The first version came out when I was 13, before BASIC compilers even existed. I posted it to local BBS, and people actually responded. I kept improving the program for 4 or 5 years, until Windows started to gain acceptance (with the release of Windows 3.0). Suprisingly, this thing was a decent Shareware success, with about 500 paid registrations coming in. Click here to download Cassette. I think its success came from the fact that it is simple to use and WYSIWYG. Eventually competition came about, but most asked you to fill in predefined fields and they would build the label for you -- meaning a loss of control for the user. I also built in a near-letter-quality printing system, so that on dot-matrix printers (that's all anyone had) each line was printed in four passes. It took a really long time, and made a god-awful noise, but the label quality was really nice. When Windows became popular, it was clear that the cassette labeling future (such that it was) was in GUI environments, where variable font and printer independence was easily possible. So that was the end of Cassette... My first contract programming job was freshman year in college, when Turner Broadcasting tracked me down to have me write them a program to create the labels that stick onto cassettes. I wrote a program called "caslabl" for them, and charged them something like $150 (foolish youth!). Anyway, if you have need for such a program, it is included in the cassette.zip file at the top of this page.