1) PC Scale for Windows
2) T-Bill for Windows
3) Change Order Management
4) 3/6/8/12 Product Review
5) Version 5.0 Upgrades
6) Hardware
7) Networks
8) Support’s "Big Ten"
9) E-mail 101
10) Internet 101

as well as presentations from

11) McCormick Software Assoc.
12) Sellect Inc.
13) Tool Watch
14 Trade Service Corp.

As in the past, in addition to the opening sessions and the closing sessions, the computer lab was the center of activity as what you learned in one of the break-outs could be explored and perfected in the lab.

Friday evening, all boarded busses for a night of eating and fun at the "Rocking R" Ranch. Set up as an old western town, all were entertained by Sweet Mary and her "Rocking R" cowboys. Songs included Rawhide (not performed by the original Blues Brothers) as well as old standard like Ghost Riders in the Sky. Drinks were purchased with McCormick dollars whose photo somewhat resembled the President of McCormick Systems and proclaimed "IN JACK WE TRUST".

Conference ‘99 continued on Saturday with the computer lab open from 9:00am to 3:00pm when McCormick’s 19th annual users conference officially closed.

T-Bill for Windows
McCormick’s latest program, T-Bill for Windows is in its testing stages and is due to be released in the middle of this year. T-Bill is a product for billing time and material work. It comes with a field work-order and has many of the common items listed on its pages. With this form filled out in the field, computer entry, number by number, is very simple and easy. Upon the data being entered, printing out an invoice is all automatic. When you bill to an existing account, that data is posted to that account for future reference.

The DOS T-Bill was awarded NECA’s Contractors Choice award at its annual Convention and Trade Show and has been extremely popular with all size contractors.

T-Bill for Windows is based on McCormick’s DOS T-Bill program, you will find all of the features that you have grown to expect plus more.

Featured in this "Windows" release are:

1) The ability to drill down into an account.
2) The ability to bring in multiple items (or assemblies) from the data base.
3) The ability to build your own forms. (invoices)
4) The ability to track the profitability of the account, customer, and/or the estimator.

Watch for more information. Testing is being completed and the product is ready to ship.

TRA-SER hot key
Long a standard in all of McCormick’s DOS programs, work has been completed to allow you to "hot key" from the WIN 3-12 estimating programs into Trade Service Corporation TRA-SER.

Now, you will be able to be in your estimating program and, if you need an item (or group of items) that is not in your base, simply click on one or two icons and you will be in TRA-SER. Then, all you need to do is select the item you want and the program will bring into your estimating program, all the data wished for that item.

A new and enhanced feature over the DOS interface, the Windows interface allows you to choose any group of specifications for an item in TRA-SER and then put them into any set of specifications in the McCormick program. This is accomplished through a user-defined "bridging" window that allows for your specific transfer needs.

This enhancement is part of the WIN 3-12 and will be part of the Version 6.0 release targeted for later this year.

CAD Interface
Work is just about completed on our interface into CAD. Designed to "talk" to CAD through Sellect Inc. or directly from AutoCad itself, this product allows you to take a project that was generated in CAD (or uploaded via diskette) and take it off directly into McCormick’s WIN 6-12 products.

As in its DOS products, use is very easy. With a drawing loaded in the computer, the estimator simply drops into McCormick, chooses an item or assembly that he wishes to count or roll, steps back into the drawing and identifies the symbol he wishes to count or measure. Upon clicking on the choice, all like items are counted. If it is a length, the computer measures all like runs.

Look for this enhancement to be released as part of Version 6.0 of the WIN 6-12 line of products.

Team McCormick
Looks like the next race for Team McCormick might just be in July in Mexico. This "timed event" starts in Ensenada located on the Pacific Coast Baja Norte and winds East up and over the Sierra de la Giganta towards the village of San Felipe and then back again. For the faint of heart, this race is run on an open highway and the cars compete with Mexican busses, trucks, cars, and god forbid, donkey carts.

We will report on how we do in a forth coming letter. (what a rush)

Citrix Server
Introduced this year at Conference ‘99, McCormick demonstrated its new network server.

Connected to about eight computers in the Computer Lab which varied from 486’s to P100’s McCormick’s Windows estimating software ran faster and more affectingly, with all stations being used, than the P400’s that were setup stand-alone. The specifications for the server are as follows:

1) HP LH4 Net Server
2) Dual Pentium II 400 Xeon
3) 39.1 Gigabyte Ultra2 SCSI Hot Swappable Hard Drives
5) HP NetRAID Level 5 Redundancy System
6) NP 10/100 base T NIC
7) Windows NT Terminal Server Edition
8) Citrix Metaframe
9) APC NS2200RM UPS

The cost of the hardware and software, as setup, totaled about $20,000 however, as all the processing is being done in the server, it allows us to dig out all the 386’s, 486’s, etc. out of the back room and hanger thusly eliminating the need to purchase new "hot" hardware.

We see this as the answer for many companies needs as this server handles LAN and WAN installations with tremendous speed and dependability and, you don’t have to purchase the heavy hardware that we did to run Citrix. This software can be loaded on standard server hardware with certain requirements and you will pickup an amazing increase in speed.

McCormick does not sell Citrix or its related hardware however, as we have in the past, will advise you as to what is available and how much you should expect to pay.

WWW.McCormickSys.Com
McCormick’s website is picking up more and more hits each day. This popular site has complete walkthorughs of all McCormick products as well as a copy of all previous "McCormick Letters". In addition, it contains information on upcoming classes, white papers that have been published, and employment opportunities.

Based on input from Conference ‘99, McCormick plans to expand this site to include technical bulletins, the "top ten" support questions with answers, as well as explore the possibilities of adding a "users bulletin board". Also requested for consideration would be links to contractors using McCormick software. Plans are being made at this time to put this website on our new Citrix server.

The entire site has been put onto a CD for those that do not have interned access. Just call the Arizona office.

On-line Training and Demos
With the new Citrix server up and running, McCormick is now in the process of setting up product demo and product training over the internet.

When completed, you will be able to dial into the McCormick website and participate in a "hands on" training session or product demo session.

Pre-Conference Classes
McCormick hosted its largest ever training class the two days prior to Conference ‘99.

Actually set up into three groups, forty four persons with three instructors worked in separate groups as well as one large group to improve their estimating skills.