Editing Peter Norton Computing (section)

==History==
Peter Norton founded the company in 1982 with $30,000 and an IBM computer.<ref>{{cite news |title= Software pioneer's fortune at stake in divorce litigation |newspaper= Los Angeles Business Journal |date= May 19, 2003}}</ref> The company was a pioneer in [[DOS]]-based utilities software. Its 1982 introduction of the [[Norton Utilities]] included Norton's UNERASE tool to [[Undeletion|retrieve erased data]] from DOS disks.

In 1984, Norton Computing reached $1 million in revenue, and version 3.0 of the Norton Utilities was released. Norton had three clerical people working for him. He was doing all of the software development, all of the book writing, all of the manual writing and running the business. The only thing he wasn't doing was stuffing the packages. He hired his fourth employee and first programmer, Brad Kingsbury, in July 1985. John Socha, the author of Norton Commander until 1989, was hired shortly after. From November 1985 until April 1986 Warren Woodford worked at Norton Computing and created [[Norton Guides]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.f6s.com/warrenwoodford|title = Warren Woodford}}</ref>{{User generated inline|date=December 2020}} In late 1985, Norton hired a business manager to take care of the day-to-day operations.<ref name="sc-lost">[http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/1992/may92/0503/92n0503.asp&amp;guid= Investigating The Lost Files Of Peter Norton, PC Pioneer, ''Computers & Electronics'', May 1992]</ref>

In 1985, Norton Computing produced the Norton Editor, a programmer's [[text editor]] created by Stanley Reifel, and [[Norton Guides]], a [[terminate-and-stay-resident program]] which showed reference information for [[assembly language]] and other IBM PC internals, but could also display other reference information compiled into the appropriate file format. [[Norton Commander]], a file managing tool for DOS, was introduced in 1986. In this year PNCI reached $5 million in revenues with Norton Utilities still bringing the largest parts.

In 1990, the company was acquired by Symantec.<ref>{{cite news | title=COMPANY NEWS; Symantec to Acquire Peter Norton | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/business/company-news-symantec-to-acquire-peter-norton.html | work=Lawrence M. Fisher | publisher=The New York Times Company | date=May 15, 1990 | accessdate=2011-05-01}}</ref> The acquired company became a division of Symantec and was renamed '''Peter Norton Computing Group'''. Most of Norton Computing's 115 employees were retained.