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Computer programmers are essential to the tech sector, which is why many tech companies try to recruit talented programmers right out of college and many tech companies provide their programmers with uncommon perks (the legendary Google cafeteria, for example).  The life of a software programmer can be a series of odd contradictions: long solitary hours of working alone on coding paired with massive collaborative efforts where a single programmer’s work is buried, without credit, within a larger project.  Most programmers seem to accept that as the reality of the job, joining large firms for the job stability and regular paycheck, content with the tradeoff that their names are unlikely ever to be recognized, even in the software programming community.  That, however, is not the path that Thomas Tempelmann took!

Thomas Tempelmann is an independent software programmer who remains largely free to pursue his own passions with programming.  Like a professional freelance writer, Tempelmann oscillates between taking assignments from companies willing to contract him to solve a specific software problem and creating programs that he is passionate about and selling them to companies that see the value of his work.  Instead of allying himself with any single company or platform, this approach has allows the German programmer to both prosper and gain some celebrity in the software programming community.

One of Tempelmann’s first major accomplishments in the world of computer programming came in the early 1980s on the old C-64 computers.  Thomas Tempelmann wrote a program called F-Copy, which was a floppy disc duplicating program.  F-Copy radically sped-up the disc copying process, cutting the time it took to make a copy of a disc from 25 minutes to less than five minutes!  F-Copy became a standard tool used by programmers following its release.

Thomas Tempelmann achieved notoriety throughout Europe as the market changed and the personal computer became a more common device there.  In Europe, Atari computers (not the old gaming consoles popular in the U.S., they actually made personal computers that were exceptionally popular in Europe!) eventually were replaced in Europe by Macintosh computers.  In Europe, Macs were used by industry and the media at the time; they were not marketed toward students or for private use.  European computer programmers were left in a lurch; they had thousands of applications for Atari systems that could not be used on the new hardware.  Thomas Tempelmann solved that problem by writing a program called MagiC!Mac.  MagiC!Mac is the first “virtual machine” computer program; it created an environment whereby the Macintosh computers running it ran programs as if they were Atari computers!  This freed up computer users and programmers in Europe to continue programming and using programs in a familiar environment, without upgrading to Macintosh’s new systems.

At age 47, Thomas Tempelmann remains very active in the programming community.  Having recently done work for Elgato and Adaptec/Roxio, as well as writing applications for the Apple iPhone.  Now enamored with the programming suite Real Studio, Tempelmann continues to make innovative programs that are lauded by programmers around the world.

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