![]() ![]() According to Keith, “I would have sold to Intergraph for $5,000, and that would have been that. On the way to California, Keith stopped in Huntsville and offered the software to Intergraph. Before leaving DuPont, Keith negotiated an agreement with the company under which he received marketing rights to the software in return for which he would provide technical support to the company’s PseudoStation users. In 1983, Keith left DuPont to work with his brother Barry in California at a company called Dynamic Solutions. ![]() ![]() PseudoStation proved to be particularly cost effective when DuPont designers wanted to simply make changes to existing drawings such as changing some text on a drawing. Keith believed there was a lower cost alternative and set out on his own time to develop a software package called PseudoStation that enabled a user to access Intergraph’s CAD software from a low-cost DEC VT-100 terminal equipped with a graphics card or a Tektronix storage tube terminal. Usage, however, was limited by the high per seat cost of adding more capacity. DuPont was using its Intergraph systems for producing electrical diagrams for its process plants. Keith Bentley had gone to work at DuPont after receiving a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and an MS from the University of Florida. One of Intergraph’s major customers in the early 1980s was DuPont’s engineering department in Wilmington, Delaware. Portions of this chapter are based on that personal experience. I periodically acted as a consultant to Bentley Systems Incorporated from 1994 through 2003. The term “Bentley” refers to the company, not an individual. Author’s note: While in other chapters, individuals are typically referred to by their last names, in this chapter the five Bentley brothers are referred to by their first names. ![]()
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