Our Company History Timeline
1979: First system design using DRDOS operating system for a medical application using a touch screen. System only had 2 floppy drives of 1.2 meg each for storage which was a lot in 1979. DRDos was the operating system and was developed by Digital Research, the "Microsoft" of the 70's.
1981: Developed the Check-A-Rate system that calculated the best shipping costs for freight being shipped via common carrier, UPS, and others.
1983: Incorporated company and began development of a Video Rental point-of-sale program - QuikFlick. Written in C and ran in the MSDOS environment under the newly released program from Microsoft.
1985: Started development of new video store rental point-of-sale using C++ and Btrieve. Target OS was MSDOS
1987: Selling EVA (Electronic Video Automation) and sold it to the Albertson's, Dans, Reams, and many other food store chains. It is still in use in over 1000 stores nationwide.
1989: Developed Foto-Trak for photo processing tacking.
1990: Started design of SPOT for drycleaners.
1991: Debut of SPOT at Clean '91 show in Las Vegas. Later that year, sold SPOT and Foto-Trak to Westgate Software.
1995: Designed and developed ProfitMaker for drycleaners. The first Windows based, picture oriented software for drycleaners.
1996: Displayed ProfitMaker at the California Cleaner Assoc. convention in Long Beach to rave reviews. (It was interesting how at that convention all of our competitors denounced the use of Windows for their systems saying that MSDos was the only way to go. Boy was the compitiion wrong, as we all know today).
2000: Converted ProfitMaker to run on the Windows 98 Platform.
2003: Last release of ProfitMaker before ProfitMaker Plus.
2005: Displayed ProfitMaker PLUS at the Clean '05 show in Orlando. ProfitMaker Plus is the 1st program written to use the SQL2005 database and introduces new and significant features for drycleaners.
2007: Clean Show '07: Demonstrated all of the new features of ProfitMaker Plus.