Computer Ads from the Past

According to the Massachusetts Secretary of State, VenturCom was founded on November 11th, 1980. The Articles of Organization list the founders as Michael Corwin, Jeffrey B. Gertz, Douglas R. Mook, and Myron L. Zimmerman.

As I was looking over the Articles of Organization, one thing stood out to me: the listed purpose of the corporation. That section is 13 paragraphs long. Most of it is extremely broad and could apply to any business venture. (There is even a section that says, “To loan to any person, firm or corporation any of its surplus funds, either with or without security.”)

The first paragraph is the one that we should be most interested in. It states, “To engage in the business of providing computer and computer system related services; including, but not limited to selling or leasing time shared computer services, providing local and remote computer-based data processing services, consulting and advisory services, program design, the marketing of computer programs, the education and training of consultants, analysts and programmers, computer programming, installation, purchase, sales, repair, manufacture, and distribution thereof.”

Besides Venix, VenturCom also worked with Windows NT and Windows CE, especially embedded and real-time applications. They worked with Microsoft to get some of their tools included in the Windows CE Embedded Toolkit.

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