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Nelson Ford
:''For the U.S. Under Secretary of the Army, see Nelson M. Ford.''
Nelson Ford was one of the founders of shareware software distribution, of ''HAL-PC'' (the ''Houston Area League of PC Users'', a PC user group which grew to over 10,000 members), of the Association of Shareware Professionals, founder of the ''Public (software) Library'', the largest commercial library of public domain and shareware software, and of the first major order processing service for shareware programmers. In 1984, through his shareware column in ''Softalk-PC'' magazine, he was responsible for standardizing the use of the term shareware for free-trial software.
He wrote several shareware games: ''CardShark Hearts'', ''CardShark Spades'', and ''CardShark Bridge Tutor''. Nelson Ford was inducted into the ''Shareware Hall Of Fame'' in August 2001.
==Background==
Nelson Ford was born in 1946 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He served 4 years in the United States Marine Corps, 19 months in Viet Nam. He graduated from the University Of Texas, Austin, with a BBA in Accounting and moved to Houston, Texas where he met and married Kay Hightower Ford. He became a Certified Public Accountant in Texas and worked for Daniel Industries, Inc. and Pennzoil Company before forming Public (software) Library. He and Kay are retired and living in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.
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