Decon History

Schedule of Events for Decon

1979:       TMcG was calling by to PO flat in
            No. 4 for free coffee
            & the dissection of a calculator

c1986:     TMcG and PO met at corner cafe in Baggot St
            close by Hackett's

c1986:        Irish clay Lotus-123 jobs
        Developed this into a DBase production control system

c1986:        TMcG signed up to Decon

1987:        Went to Software Labs

1988-04:        Decon started off in Rathmines

1988:        Did stuff for IBMAC
        Database system for managing a conference scheduling, attendance and Technical Paper control

1988-04:    First version of Tour System for Co-Op Travel (COOP or TOUR) in dBASE III PLUS

1988:        Decon purchased CLIPPER        Clipper Systems developed to 1995    TOUR
                                            EARTH
                                            PROCON
                                            STREET
                                            Rental collection system for Wexford

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1989:        Mark Sheeran appeared

1988:        TMcG went over to London to Meridian for two week contract

1988-93:    KC was hanging around. I bought Faircom & he was fiddling with that.

1989-04:        We moved to Leeson St

1990-01:        Peter joined in for a week doing stuff in C

1990-?:        Brendan McGlynn appeared (IBM/AT&T).
        Courtesy of him TMcG encountered his first real touchscreen!

1991-01:        TMcG got Langdons

1991-02:        We got Procut & Sovreign

1991-04:    PROCON Version 3 released

1991-01:        Helen for summer

1992-12:    Version of STREET issued to Clonmell TC (Not paid)

1993:        KC went off to Motorola Cork

1994-09:    Upgrade of COOP issued

1994:        TMcG went off to Motorola Cork

1995-01:    Backup copy of SIAC EARTH data filed away

1996-08:    Malahide positioning system developed for dredging in Malahide Marina