
REALITY SOFTWARE:
WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US

Reality Software is a small, two person company run by 
myself, Ben Blumenberg, and my wife, Leslie Berger Blumenberg. 
We do it all: author, design, produce, test and ship the software, 
maintain our PC's and feed the cat. We started Reality Software 
in the winter of 1991 when our two daughters were preparing to go 
out into the world on their own and PC technology had arrived
that allowed us to execute various product ideas we had
developed.

Our first product line was mythology E-books, a commitment that 
has its roots in our intense personal interest in humankind's 
spiritual journey, both past and present. Before entering the 
computer software business, I ad a college faculty position for 21 
years and had done considerable published research in such 
fields as biometry, population genetics, human evolution (physical 
and cultural anthropology) and history of hand tools in America. 
Although my casual acquaintance with religious history goes back 
to my undergraduate years, I began to develop a deep curiosity 
about ancient, classical and medieval history and the evolution of 
religious and mythic systems.

In the fall of 1994, we began to develop two additional, but 
interrelated, product lines. From the early '80s through the early 
'90s, we were full time antique dealers and thereby became quite 
involved with various aspects of American history. During that 
period, we collected antique transportation photography, 
particularly that of early railroads and classic sailing 
ships. Our collection is fascinating to us and we hope you enjoy it 
as well. Many of the photos are unique, quite rare and contain 
valuable historical data. We decided to have this collection 
scanned, making it available to both enthusiasts and media 
professionals at the lowest possible cost, accompanied by 
whatever reliable historical data can be determined for each 
image. As many of these early photos are severely damaged, 
Leslie brings her exceptional skill at restoration to this project in 
order to both accurately preserve the important data in the images 
and make an attractive computer graphic available for sale. 
You will rarely see small graphic files at 256 grey scale with this 
level of clarity and quality. 

Leslie has a degree in special needs education for young 
children. Her experience with the diversity of perceptual worlds 
manifested by young children, whose alternative visions may be 
unique unto themselves, has provided an endlessly fertile ground 
for metaphoric artistic exploration. Our third product line rests 
upon the her artistic talents. Her thematic focus stems from a study 
of the archeology and anthropology of tribal and Neolithic 
cultures. Leslie then draws upon this data to create important 
artistic motifs which illustrate the clan experience, totemic 
relationships and the vision quest. Her compositions illustrate the 
great mythic diversity that has, and still does, exist among the 
world's peoples. We hope you enjoy these exceptional images as 
they capture important mythological motifs and may they enrich 
your imagination and spiritual lives.


HOW TO CONTACT US

Ben and Leslie Blumenberg
REALITY SOFTWARE
1015 Main Street
Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105
Phone: (207) 832-7348 most days noon to  10 PM EST
Internet -   bennett@pipeline.com
(almost daily mail run)
CompuServe - 71044,1645              
World Wide Web - http://www.maine.com:80/reality/Welcome.html

Let us hear from you!
 
