In 1990, I purchased a Bible software program for my first computer. It was QuickVerse 1.0. QuickVerse became a close companion in my personal Bible study for the next 15-years. I recently ran across Craig Rairdin on Facebook. Craig is the creator of QuickVerse, and the subsequent founder & developer of Pocket-Bible, marketed through Laridian. Craig was kind enough to give us this interview. This is part one.

Hi Craig, thanks for granting us this interview. Give us a quick timeline to help our readers connect the history of QuickVerse. • I graduated in December 1981 and started working at Rockwell in January, 1982. • I started working on the program that would become QuickVerse from home in late 1987 while working at Rockwell.

• I interviewed with Bob Parsons in the Fall of 1987, but he didn’t have any openings. • I completed my Bible program in the Fall of 1988 and showed it to Bob. • I left Rockwell to join Parsons Technology in November, 1988, as Director, Church Software Division.

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• I was promoted to Vice President of Parsons Technology in 1990-91. Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, IA and still live there (actually right next door in Marion, IA). I went to school at the University of Iowa just 30 miles south. Was faith always part of your life?

I grew up going to church, but not one that preached the Gospel. I first heard the Gospel as part of a “lay witness weekend” where the church brought in people from around the state who had had a salvation experience to tell people in the church how to be saved – because of course there was nobody already in the church who was doing that.

Very bizarre when I look back on it. I accepted Jesus Christ during my junior year in college and immediately connected with a campus ministry at the University of Iowa, through which I met my wife. How did you come up with the idea of QuickVerse? Back in the late 80’s I got my first computer and was browsing through a software catalog when I found a set of about 10 disks containing the KJV Bible on sale for $50. It occurred to me that I could write a little program that accessed the Bible and would let me quickly go to a verse or search for a word or phrase.

I originally wrote it with the idea that I would give a copy to my pastor and he and I would use it for Bible study. I wasn’t thinking about selling it when I first started in on it. How did you choose the name?