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Are you guys still around? We are looking for some programmers who can work on CAPSIL. Do you know anyone?
On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 1:42:07 PM UTC-5,
wayne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 2:48:23 PM UTC-5, hcddm00 wrote:
I am a former employee of the company that developed CAPSIL, also known
as CAPS-IL and CAPS-I-L.
CAPS-IL was developed by a small US company, CAPSCO, Inc., originating
in Chicago, and later moved to Rosemont, IL, then to Lombard, IL. The Canadian office was opened later, did NOT write the software, but did do the conversion to English/French screens and the conversion to DB2.
The name is derived from Computer Assisted Programming Services (CAPS) - Individual Life (IL). The company also had a claims processing system called CAPS-CLAIM. The software was written on Prime, then converted to IBM, then later to Burroughs large systems (I did this conversion). A version was also available for the PC, DOS based.
Originally a three man partnership, CAPSCO was later purchased by
Tindall Associates, then acquired by SwissRE, which also acquired Pallm Systems in Indianapolis and merged the two companies into Capsco-Pallm Systems. George Tindall passed away shortly after the merger and leadership sadly went to the guy from Indianapolis. The US company floundered for a while, finally its assets were sold to PMSC in one of
the Carolinas. PMSC was later bought by IBM.
CAPSIL is no longer sold in the US. The Canadian company may still be
in operation, there is an Asian company that sells a version for the IBM
i Series (AS/400), and there was and may still be an office in Kansas
City, MO that used CAPSIL and other software to do TPA for life
insurance companies that did not want to maintain there own software and computer operation.
Dave McPhee
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I just came across this note from Dave McPhee about CAPSCO and it brought back a lot of memories. I worked closely with Bill Strauss, George Tindall and Ron Stone in 1979-80 to bring the Caps-i-l system into our company, Eaton Financial Services. We were the second Canadian company, after Travelers, to use the system in Canada. I worked many hours with Bill Schey to customize the system. I also was involved with putting a valuation system into Life of Barbados who had purchased the Caps-i-l system to run on a Burroughs computer. Many years later I was involved with setting up the PC version on a PS/2 computer in Hong Kong. Any other people out there with CAPSCO/Caps-i-l memories?
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