Cosmic Patterns Software, Inc

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1973 - 1979: David Cochrane begins developing astrology software on mainframe computers in the Fortran and Cobol languages. With assistance from Neil Michelsen and Mark Pottenger in getting the planetary calculations to run, he adds calculations of harmonics, cosmbiology, Vedic dasas, cosmobiology interpretations and other features, all running on an IBM mainframe computer with punch cards. 1980: David moves the software from the mainframe to the TRS-80 computer, and converts the software from Cobol and Fortran to the BASIC language. 1980 - 1981: David begins selling an all-purpose astrology software program for the TRS-80 that can produce aspect grids, midpoint trees, transit listings, and other calculations. 1981 - 1982: David decides to close his astrology software company and work for Matrix software to collaborate with other programmers. He works there for one year, and develops the first interpretive astrology software for home computers for them, and also collaborates with them on developing their first all-pupose software rather than software that provides only specific calculations. 1982: David returns to Gainesville, FL and begins writing the Kepler software and starts Comic Patterns Software. 1983 - 1984 Some highlights are: (1) Eileen Naumann and Ry Redd contact David about offering software to produce interpretations that they have written. David develops the software and this starts Kepler's list of report options. (2) Kepler begins producing color chart wheels before other companies. (3) Kepler includes time zone and DST information so users do not have to look up the information in a book, (4) Extremely fast data entry with automatic lookup of cities and chart names while you type brings a new level of ease-of-use to software, (5) Research features are included in Kepler, and Kepler uses an indexed database to allow large numbers of charts to be researched. 1985 - 1990: Features, features, features! Under a new management, Cosmic Patterns grows rapidly, hires an additional part time programmer and office help. Customers are enthusiastic about Kepler and send in requests nearly every day. Cosmic Patterns does little advertising and grows by word of mouth. 1991 - 1997: Windows 3.1 arrives and DOS gradually becomes extinct. It takes several years to convert the large amount of code to Windows and it is not until 1996 that the Windows version of Kepler is made available. Windows 3.1 is not completely stable and the release of Windows 95 in 1995, which is more stable and easier to use than Windows 3.1 brings the DOS operating system to be nearly completely superceded by Windows. Cosmic Patterns begins advertising more and has a larger presence at conference trade shows in the USA and around the world. The increased advertising helps Kepler reach the attention of people who otherwise would be unaware of the program. The number of features in Kepler continues to grow and now includes many technical calculations and calculations for many schools of astrology. 1998: Cosmic Patterns Software moves into a new office building.

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