The first order of business, after taking care of small stuff around the office, is the assets app. Which nobody liked - it's not the kind of event-history-status or transaction-status oriented app like any other, it's more or less stationary, its transactions behave differently, the calculation is different and should be repeatable, yet the calculation IS an event... tough.
So we gave it to a girl who was an apprentice of sorts, or should we say a fellow, trying to learn the tricks of the trade after finishing petefi. She didn't know much fox, and getting her to know GenerAll was adding a layer of complexity. Which it shouldn't, it did a lot of work for you, but... you need to understand what it does.
Someone sent her, she just appeared, asked for work or apprenticeship. We barely had money for ourselves, so she'd just sit there pretending to learn stuff. Small, almost pretty, with thick glasses and shy voice and attitude... I don't know whether she learned anything, nor whether she lasted more than three weeks. We didn't have time for her.
So the assets wasn't being really written until much later. But then it's something that is needed by the end of the year, so it can wait.
Few days later, on 4th of march, a writ came from DBA. The state has decided that what we paid to the privatization agency in 1993, to buy our company back from the state (not the founders, state became the owner by its own fiat), was not okay because we did it in the conditions of severe inflation (caused by the state), so of the 23 shares that I had I now actually own, after revaluation, 0,37 shares, which means that I own about 119 dinars of it. Whatever the value of the dinar was at the time.
Nena also wrote that I owe some equipment, which they didn't pursue at the time because they were awaiting the writ from the agency, but now that they got it, I'm supposed to either return it or find some other way to recompensate them. Yeah, right, I got a lousy 25MHz 386SX with just 2M memory (enlarged to 4, courtesy of Szoftex, or perhaps it was 8), while any decent box at the time would be at least a 486 - these were around for a number of years already. Looking at Avai's price list at the time, we sold some 386 at 40MHz, 486 at 100 MHz, and pentiums at 100 and 120 MHz.
So I decided to swap junk for junk, and offered that we call it even - my share for the machine. This was accepted and I didn't have anything with DBA after that.
It's interesting to see the split of shares - Sale had 25, Vanji and Fefi had 24 each, me, Brata, Blaža, Grgi and Nena had 23, Rade and Števa had 22, Milka, Gradek and Carp had 21 each. Which looks quite like initial Brata's proposal from july of 1992, whereby Sale, Vanji and I would get 15% each, and the rest in about this proportion. Except it's nothing like, the wives didn't like it so it's this flat rate instead.
On first of march, there's a comment in the archiver routine, signed by Joška and also as Avai. So I guess he was employed then already. I see it supports several formats of floppies - for 5,25, it's 360KB, 720KB, 1,2MB or 1,4MB; same for 3,5 but with different ones prefixed with double backslash, which probably meant disable. But then why did we disable 720 for 5,25 - I still have some 40 of those sitting in a box, unreadable because that format isn't supported anymore.