Komputerwerk
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Once again, we have a company with an interesting name. It looks very German. In fact, the search engine tried to update my search query to computerwerk. It’s not surprising because Pennsylvania was a top destination for German immigrants during the 18th century.
According to OpenCorporates, Komputerwerk was founded in March 1985 by Frank Schmidt, Mary Ann Schmidt, and Paul Dymerski. (The name was registered in 1981 as a “fictitious name” in Pennsylvania. Whatever that means.) The Pennsylvania SOS says that the company is still active.
(Update: Based on a comment, I decided to take a second look at the current status of Komputerwerk. The Pennsylvania SOS site says that the business is active and the annual report was due on 6/30/25. However, opencorporates listed the latest filing for the company as “Out of Existence per DOR” on 6/13/1996. According to my research, Pennsylvania companies have to file an “Out of Existence/Withdrawal Affidavit” with the PA Department of Revenue when they shutdown. So, this company is no more.)
Komputerwerk’s main product appears to have been a library for compiled BASIC programs named Finally!. Dymerski created Finally!:
Paul P. Dymerski has worked with BASIC for over ten years and bas beta tested both QuickBASIC and Turbo Basic. As developer of the Finally! line of BASIC utilities, marketed by Komputerwerk, Inc., he has had opportunity to put many of the BASIC compilers through their paces. His company, gamut, does custom program development and specializes in scientific laboratory “computerization” (computer integration of the entire laboratory process from data acquisition to report generation).
So what Finally! do?
Finally!, a library of more than 100 named subroutines for use in compiled BASIC programs has been introduced by komputerwerk. It takes advantage of the named subroutine capability in the newer compilers, such as IBM BASIC 2.0 or Microsoft QuickBASIC. Subroutines in Finally! can be used for averaging and determining maximum and minimum values in arrays; loading disk directories into an array; changing the default drive; stripping leading and trailing blanks from strings; sorting numeric and string arrays; drawing boxes, pie, and bar charts; and determining memory and peripheral configuration. Source code for all subroutines and functions is included and all are fully documented and indexed. Finally! also includes a cross-reference utility. $99.
Komputerwerk also sold a graphics pack for BASIC named Xgraf:
Xgraf is an assembly-language extendedgraphics kernel for Quick Basic that adds full-featured calls that perform Basic’s graphics functions in all graphics modes. Xgraf also offers screen packing, zooming (fatbits), file saving and loading, and importing of graphics screens.
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Sorry, but is not in business anymore since 1996.
In Pennsylvania, "Out of Existence" as defined by the Department of Revenue (DOR) means that a domestic corporation is relieved of the responsibility to file corporate tax reports and pay minimum taxes with the Commonwealth, provided the corporation has ceased doing business, divested itself of all assets, and filed all required tax reports and payments up to the date of liquidation.