In 1982, while on the road, he picked up a small computer that was just released at the time from England called the Sinclair ZX81. Bob lived in his hotel rooms teaching himself to program and understand the inner workings of this fascinating computer technology. Two weeks of programming in Basic made him aware that he needed more speed and power for the types of things he wanted his computer to do, so he began studying and programming Assembly Language. Assembly Language is one of the most important factors that, in his opinion, has given his products the edge over today's competition.

Bob continued on the road as a sound engineer working with various artists until 1984 when he left his job with Tony Orlando to pursue a computer career. He had been developing a computer program on the Commodore 64 that he decided to try to market.