ExR

ExR History

1987-1990 1991-1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

In the early 1980s, Michael R. Rainer was an instructor in the English department at the University of Georgia. In 1980, he bought a computer from a mail-order house in California. Fascinated by the potential of this new technology, he started a business out of his home.

Rainer began using the machine as a tool in his new technical writing and editing business, Verbatim. He also consulted on computer technology. During the next several years, he met and began to work with geologists William Fay and Gene Hartley, who operated a two-man company called Exploration Software, developing software for the mining and environmental industries.