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In 1993, I started working in the Group Insurance division of a medium-sized insurance company. The products sold by this division were made available to life insurance agents via a locally executed application written in the Pascal programming language. Those agents placed the disk into their computer and launched an MS-DOS executable, which started a character-based application focused on generating new policy sales.