EXECOM(TM)
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Execom has been in business since 1981. The original charter was granted in Racine, Wisconsin. The company goal has always been to enhance computers to make them more useable tools for you. This is where the name came from: EXpanded, Enhanced COMputers. The Tradename and Trademark (EXECOM) have been registered since 1982. We design and develop custom programs for YOU, to make computers do what you want them to do, as well as make them do what most other programmers / consultants cannot.
Product History
The original product introduced by EXECOM was a combination hardware and firmware
enhancement for the Commodore PET, 40 column computer. This allowed the operator to
have an 80 column screen. In order to implement this design, a custom designed EPROM
'burner' was needed, so it was designed for the PET computer. This product required
reverse engineering the existing PET computer firmware and hardware.
Following that first product, we developed the first cartridge for the Commodore C-64 that allowed addressing more than 64KB of memory via a bank-switched scheme. This design was introduced to Commodore at a trade show in California, then introduced as a product in England, 4 months later, by Commodore.
The next product was a CP/M program to test burn-in chambers for computers built by General Motors, Delco Electronics division.
Following this design for manufacturing, the next design was a combination hardware and firmware (EPROM) package allowing 2 operators to share one screen and C-64 computer. This facilitated positioning surface mount integrated circuits on circuit boards for wave soldering. These circuit boards were used for aircraft control computers. This design was implemented with a time table of 4 months. The engineering department for Delco Electronics purchased a Commodore PET and C-64 computers. Commodore had given a C-64 floppy drive to us for R&D work, so that was used in the design cycle. This product consisted of a cartridge for the C-64 that enabled start-up and booting from the C-64 floppy drive (not available from Commodore). The operator had a choice of product numbers to display on the split-screen of the C-64 display. Engineering uses the PET computer to supply the layout for the circuit boards. This product required re-designing the character generator for the screen display on the PET computer and the printer used for documentation. This product was designed in Assembler and Basic with a hardware and firmware design.
The next product was a POS system for a bakery. This system was implemented on an AppleII computer. It consisted of an inventory management and sales receipts, with billing.
The next design was for a custom swimsuit manufacturer. This design allowed the operator of the system to take 2 digital images of a woman and determine her body measurements without touching the person being measured. This product was a combination of Basic and C programming languages.
The next design was a Job Shop application for Swiss Screw Manufacturing. This was implemented in Access (Visual Basic). Inventory control and receivables were included. We followed up with integrated payables and general ledger. This product evolved to an accounting package for the service industry. The use of these products allows the average office to eliminate one employee position when transferring from a paper accounting system.
Following this product, two programs were developed for data collection for the dairy industry. These are Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) for transferring the data from testing the content of milk samples. The primary program allows the operator to read the sample DDE data. It receives the data and then immediately transfers this data to the serial port designated in the INI file. This INI file is used to initialize the serial port used by the program. The second program is for emulating the program that tests the milk content. These programs were developed in Visual C++.
A combined payroll program for printing W2's and 1099's was developed to allow for the inadequacies in the majority of the other available products. This program allows for importing from most any file format. This allows a company using a payroll service or program to print their own W2's and 1099's.
Currently under design are programs for the farming industry and golf course maintenance.
During these product designs, it was necessary to bill for these services, so a time and billing program was developed for internal use and sold to legal firms as well.
Execom
James C. Halsey
N3357 Ivy Rd.
Lake Geneva, WI 53147
Copyright (c) James C. Halsey, USA