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MOTOR CITY SOFTWARE
Set your Motor City Time Viewer for summer, 1990. As your
screen slowly clears, you'll see Rod Hancock busily debugging,
typing, flow-charting, and doing all those other programmer
things. Rod is working on a new concept in BBS utilities, a file
request door that would eventually be called "McFreq", using John
Parlin's Turbo Pascal Program Door tool kit called JPDoor. Rod
contacts John to register JPDoor and the two get to know each
other better. Fade Out on flow chart.
Fade in a short time later. Rod contacts Jeff Wilson in to
help with programming on the file request door project. The three
of them, joined by John's friend, documentation writer, and
part-time programmer Peter Kling, decide to form a partnership
known as Motor City Software. It turns out to be an electronic
partnership, since the principals have never actually met. Fade
Out on computer terminal.
Fade In. It's a little while later, and one of the most
talented and prolific authors in the door writing business, Mark
McKay, has joined the team as a contract author. Mark, who is
well known in TAG BBS circles, is interested only in programming
and is only too happy to let Motor City handle the business and
provide the support expected by registered Motor City users. Mark
is only the first, as the programming team is later joined by
Robert Jenkins, with more on the way. Fade Out on game door
screen.
Fade in. It's May, 1992, and an historic event takes place.
After two years in business as the premier BBS door developers,
the partners of Motor City Software meet each other for the first
time! Fade out on mountain of beer bottles.
Our MC Time Viewer brings us back to the present to find the
Motor City team still dedicated to producing the best software
possible. Often projects begin as small utilities to handle a
specific problem, but blossom under the talented hands of the
programming team.
Motor City's reputation grows, our MC Time Viewer tells us,
because of quality products and international distribution and
support, with hub systems in North America, Europe and Australia.
Registrations are accepted at one site on each continent. The
beta team also grows, as select system operators on all three
continents cover their own phone bills to help distribute Motor
City products.
Quality breeds success, and Rod Hancock goes full time as
BBS operator, programmer, and sysop support site. The primary
Motor City Software Support BBS can be reached through Fidonet as
1:229/418, or direct at 416-579-6318. Rod is available for sales
or support voice calls weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at (416)
579-3256 (Canada). Motor City's primary mailing address is Motor
City Software, C/O Rod Hancock, 1320 Mary St. N #105, Oshawa Ont.
L1G-6Y9.
By registering Motor City doors, your sysop supports the
shareware concept and provides users like you with the highest
quality game and utility doors available. Motor City doors are
always fully functional, allowing your sysop to completely
evaluate them prior to registration. The small registration fee
allows Motor City to continue providing quality software at
reasonable prices.
As a user, your comments and suggestions are always
welcomed. Please ask your system operator to forward them to
Motor City. And be sure to thank your sysop for providing you
with "The Very Best."
Motor City Software
Rod Hancock
John Parlin
Jeff Wilson
Peter Kling