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MCS was established in 1974 as the software development division for IFA Insurance Company, a leading private insurance company in New Jersey. MCS is a wholly owned subsidiary of IFA Insurance Company. Back in 1975, after the MCS developers completed the design and implementation of a proprietary in-house insurance management system for IFA, the developers were approached by an acquaintance who was a principal partner of a New Jersey based Food Brokerage company. The name of the brokerage company was Food Associates and they were in the market for a software solution to run their business. MCS spent a year consulting with Food Associates regarding their requirements and in late 1976 the MCS solution was installed on a Perkin-Elmer mainframe computer in the Food Associates home office. The original MCS system was written in the COBOL programming language. That mainframe was almost the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and probably weighed in at about 500 pounds. We’ve come a long way in 30 years.

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