The CSS DV-ORCA-PC:
a Pentium 4 PCs for GAMING, DIGITAL VIDEO, AND BUSINESS.

You can use this PC for a wide variety of applications.
It's an excellent office and entertainment computer.

It's an amazing Gamer, USING the GEFORCE 2 Video is Awesome!
And, it will read and process Video Camera Images so you
can Edit and Record Videos.

It's an amazing BUSINESS MACHINE, with remarkable throughput
and more to come with the next generation WINDOWS XP OS.

It's a remarkable GRAPHICS ARTS and VIDEO DEVELOPMENT
MACHINE, with remarkable capacities and substantial speed.

We can supply you production video quality upgrades
if you are more then just an average Home Video producer!
The world is changing.  Change with it.

Monitors, Cameras, Printers are not included,
but may be purchased for modest extra charge
at time of purchase.

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ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

We specialize in producing the finest PCs possible in a given price range, using only the best grade of superior component and cutting no corners.

We stay ahead of the pack, by building fresh, new systems at time of order while keeping in partnership with the major component suppliers, being their partners and their customer, we even contribute design ideas and new concepts to them, to insure that they have the latest needs of the market assessed properly.

About Computer Sales & Service's Founder:

    The Invention, the Windowed PC

Our founder was one of the originators of the PC, he designed the first versions of the modern day PC in 1976-78 for use by a Fashion Designer at FIT in New York City in an exercise for Singer Corporation and Simplicity Patterns, for use as a general technology replacement for the IBM 5100 series computer, widely used in garment design. His unusual  ideas, fostered back in the late 60's and early 70's while interning at Bell Labs, where he came up with the idea of cross breeding the Picture Phone with the Unix Minicomputer and the Computer Network, were for the very first time consolidated by our founder into a Desktop Personal Computer, and Home Design system, which were incorporated into the Garment Designer's patents, which were intended to define algorithms she believed existed in her Fairchild garment pattern books, very popular in her field.  The resulting computers he came up with, were used in the course of patenting the books and their algorithms, to demonstrate how unique the algorithms were and how they might apply when used on a computer system.  

However, at the time, computers were big, bulky things, and CAD CAM systems ran into the millions of dollars.  So, our founder, borrowing from his persistent work at formularizing desktop computers, dug deep down into his creative intellect to come up with a new style of computing, which would lend to the perception by the Patent Office that such a computer were even feasible, so that such would not detract from her patents.  

His resulting designs for a "garment designer" and "pattern creator" PC, were documented in the book and algorithm patenting process and arguments that resulted in the Garment Designer from FIT being awarded key patents in Design Algorithm, by the US Patent and Trademark Office.  As her consultant, he had come up with a formula for technology that eclipsed the simple yet bulky and expensive Wang, Datapoint, Intel and IBM rather slow business micro-computers of the mid 70's.  Afterward, using components from Intel and from Motorola, in 1977 78 and 79, he built several industrial computers based on this design.  IBM, interested in one edition which matched the computers our Chief Scientist defined to document the FIT Design Professor's patents, adopted and dubbed it "the Gearbox", and started work incorporating our founder's "workstation" which became the basis for the IBM PC and PC/AT, as well as expressing financial interest in his "cadstation".  

The "Cadstation" apparently was so intriguing to Dr. An Wang, that Wang Laboratories, AT&T and a venture firm  from Boston used his designs as the basis for the Apollo Computer, later copied by Sun Microsystems.  Sun also adopted some of the Client Server notions which were popularized at Xerox Parc, but which Xerox learned about from the Rutgers Digital Library Client and Server host developed by him while at Rutgers Graduate School of Library Services.  Furthermore, Xerox had even adapted the windowing concepts to their Dolphin and Star Workstations in 1977 and 1978, concepts that Xerox was first exposed to by Citibank in 1976, showing Xerox the Fed Funds Trading System that started the entire windows revolution.  Xerox went off and attempted to 'embody' in its new workstations (Citicorp was very much in the mid 70's, one of the key driving forces in technology entrepreneurship, and its pride in his Fed Funds System, was no exception) his notions about Windowing, and was shortly followed by every major technology enterprise interested in having an advanced computer or workstation.

    The Fed Funds Trading system

In 1974/75 or thereabouts, he had written, in Wang Basic, a fundamental window management system for the Wang 2200 VP, translating an earlier version of his ODIN Windows product, which he had tried to interest both Vydec Corporation (related to Exxon, an early Word Processing company) Xerox in, both of whom in 1972, turned him down, indicating that they were satisfied with the NON-Windowed versions of the Alto computer being deployed by Xerox at Xerox Parc as a model for its word processing software, despite the lack of overlapping windowed display.  The ODIN Windows product became the foundation used by him at Citibank when he, from scratch, wrote the entire Federal Funds Workstation and Trading System, the very first primitive commercial implementation of a windowed display system.  It was marked by several improvements over his earlier work, including the ability to generate reports from screen displays in frames, and to enter data side by side with display of real time automated money positions, and ongoing transactions.  Believe it or not the entire system ran from a pair of 8" Floppy Disk Drives, using one for Data, and the other for the operating system and applications programming.  A primitive system by modern standards, but with noless than 99% of the concepts found in all modern Windowed GUIs.

The Fed Funds system was used by Citicorp, and still is in modern form, to manage its ability to trade excess capital to other banks at the time when they need it just before the close of the Federal Reserve, to meet their collateral quotas, allowing Citicorp to accrue respectable earnings on a daily basis, just by eliminating their own overages of cash on hand.  This novel system allowed users to use hot keys to pop windows of information up on the screen, some overlapping, some tiled and some cascaded, using very basic primitives for display control found on the Wang.  Windows originally could not be repositioned, until Wang upgraded the Computer from an early 2200B to a 2200VP, and the higher performance machine had the ability to rapidly recalculate window origins.  Because of the enormous financial success of this system, after Jack left Citicorp, they continued to tap his strengths as a designer of windowed application systems at other computer companies, where he designed for them windowed versions of Automated Money Position, Assets and Liabilities and even Master Card and Travelers Checks systems, which were cloned throughout the banking industry.   On one system, the Assets and Liabilities Committee room, Jack invented several standard equations which translate polar to raster, raster to vector and back again, that so greatly streamlined the performance of early computers at graphing bar and line charts, that it made real time calculation and display of "what if" simulations possible for the first time for Citibanks' ALCO committee, further bringing Citibank forward in its ability to leverage technology to manage its entire operation.  The remarkable applications Jack authored for ALCO, included projection screen displays with alternative display of video (using a General Electric P70 Light Valve projector, which used a big, vacuum oil reservoir to reflect light onto a projection screen, much as oil generates color spectra on the surface of your driveway, under 'boiling electrons' control, back in the mid 70's, about the state of the art in projection video and data interfaces.)

By 1977, the vast successes of this "windowed" application environment by the major banks such as Citicorp, Manufacturers Hanover, Chase and Chemical Bank, and follow on applications developed by Jack using Wang and DG minicomputers for Merrill Lynch, Quotron, and other companies, led to IBM Corporation making a 5 year plan to introduce a stronger personal computing offering, wherein they adopted Jack's work around that time, on the Pattern Creator, knowing he was designing a computer capable of implementing windowed software.  It took IBM until 1982 and 1984, to bring the PC to market, and it took them and Microsoft, almost 10 years longer, with Intel, to mature the technology until it more closely resembled Jack's long range visualizations in the mid 70's, and to make their windows systems reliable and viable, having a much larger responsibility than the simple banking applications and garment design Jack implemented in the 70's.  Even today, the PC is still striving to meet those early design concepts, slowly evolving, as technology tries to catch up with our Chief Scientist's advances.

    Contenders fight to use his ideas

In the late 70's and early 80's, EDS Corporation and Apple, IBM and Motorola, while working on the development of Cad and Graphics stations for various ventures were tapped out during the time period that Steve Jobs was relieved of his head position at Apple to form NextGen, a Unix Workstation Company.  Needing a product that would compete with the immanent IBM PC, Apple decided to opt for a variation of the original Motorola based workstations, using the 68000, that were under development at IBM, but which were thought to be eclipsed by the impending Apollo Computer.  Jack, by that time, working for Apollo, was serving as the overseeing engineer on IBM's Office of the Future, in Yorktown Heights, and regularly lectured at IBM on the benefits of "Windowing" and "Network Wide Virtual Memory Single Level Store", two very innovative concepts at the time.  Apple brought out its Lisa, later renamed Macintosh, with the help of IBM, Motorola and EDS, acquiring a new CEO from IBM neighbor, Pepsico, while Steve Jobs went on to open up his own Workstation Company, where he pioneered many interesting GUI and other software innovations.

Seeing the value and benefit of selling its engineering concepts to Apple, and its need to avoid competition that might reflect badly on its consent agreement with the Department of Justice anti-Trust division, from back in the 60's, which would have required IBM to license its operating system to all of its competitors, for free, IBM decided to place the operating system for the PC and for the Windows and Office of the Future systems, with an outside business.

Microsoft, then known as MITS, had been building its Basic language interpreter into a single board computer edition of the Intel 8088 micro computer, in a chassis, and had what IBM felt was the commensurate experience, so IBM, over several years, contracted with and eventually transferred the software, so that  Microsoft could sell its IBM PC DOS and then IBM Windows operating systems to many users of the Intel x88, x86, x286, x386 and Pentium processors, under the Microsoft brand.

    Microsoft breaks free

Gradually, however, Microsoft became so financially successful, that it took over more and more of the development load, during a very tough time at IBM, which was undergoing restructuring, due to the advent of the PC and the reduction in sales cash flows on its Mainframe computers, and other problems which seemed to plague IBM Corporation.

After much time passed, the contracts with Microsoft started to unravel and IBM possessed so little ability to control the company, that Microsoft just "slipped from its grasp".  Similarly, investments IBM made in Intel Corporation reduced in value as Intel grew, due to the vast number of competitors who leapt into the field.  Also, Apple grew dramatically, but as Intel's processors overshadowed Motorola, and AT&T Microelectronics, whose science was incorporated into Motorola's CPUs, grew weakened by its own regulatory breakup and deregulation.  So, needing new blood, in the 90s, Apple licensed from IBM, the new PowerPC CPU, which Motorola agreed to manufacture.  Simultaneously, under the guise of porting the MAC OS system, also derived from Jack's early work on Windowing,  IBM formed Taligent, and ported it for Apple, leaving it with Apple, along with the Motorola edition of IBM's PowerPC chips.  

Since then, IBM and Texas Instruments and Motorola, have steadily contributed updated technology to Apple, allowing its Power Mac, G1-G4 systems to flourish, with MAC users happily ignorant that Apple has been marketing one of the two primary designs for PCs developed by IBM from his original design work.  Imagine that: Apple an IBM derived venture.  For years, Steve Jobs gave the appearance of independence, but the Power PC and MAC OS's port and its original concepts both came from IBM Research.  His original background was independent, and fortunately for Apple, after serious problems, Steve returned in the past few years to head up Apple, bringing the entrepreneurship and skills necessary to help Apple captivate the "stylish" segment of the PC industry.

Today, with the help of designers at Hewlett Packard and Digital Equipment, and input from our Chief Scientist on CPU acceleration and micro coding, Intel has attempted to produce the first in a series of new CPU types: the Pentium 4, incorporating bus technology from Digital and Hewlett's RISC chips, and Microcoding Enhancements designed and intended to elicit the same capabilities in the Pentium 4, as existed in the top of the line RISC chips from Sun, HP and Compaq/DEC.

Our founder continues to provide innovative advice to many companies in the computer industry, in an allied effort to help the industry move forward, while serving as CEO and VP Engineering at Computer Sales & Service, LLC.  Never once seeking the limelight, he has revolutionized the computer as we know it, causing changes in the direction of the world, as a result.  His earliest works in college, Digital Library Browsing systems at the Rutgers Graduate School of Communications and Library Science were the first (in 1969/70) visualizations of what became known as Iris, and eventually, the first Internet, which came from Rutgers, to AT&T and Darpa Net, and eventually the world. 

He also shook the Venture Capital and Technology Industry in 1983/84 with his introduction of designs for unusually high performance massively parallel supercomputers, designs oft copied by companies such as Symbolics and Thinking Machines, some of which basic notions about multiprocessor signal arbitration and sharing, were even incorporated into IBM's famous Deep Blue and related Supercomputers. 

As Chairperson of the ACSA foundation, Jack continues to consult on scientific and public interest matters ranging from high energy physics, to computer science, to issues such as native human rights, and health concerns such as the diabetes epidemic and the hvCJD epidemic. 

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