1984:
MC Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) and the Constitutional Officers (Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, Supervisor of Elections (SOE), Clerk of Court (COC), and Sheriff James Holt) bought a Prime 450, a 350MB SMD and software from Anacomp. The Martin County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) was given (Ray) Sanders Software Systems (SSS) COPS Records system, and (Geisinger's) GovernMentor PR/AR/AP. Every office (but primarily the board of county commissioners) used WordMarc word processing.
Elections and Sheriff are happy. BOCC and the rest of the constitutional officers are not. MC sues Anacomp and gets all the money back. The Constitutional Officers (except for MCSO and SOE) go on their own with different HW/SW systems. MCSO purchases their own 350MB SMD.
The MCCOC joined a consortium of many Florida county Clerks of Court, all running on, at the time, their own Siemens Nixdorf computers. Surely HW/SW upgrades have taken place since then but still the same heritage/pedigree. The UI appears to be telnet though I haven't seen it in a couple of years (MCSO Jail Court Records unit routinely logs in to check on court information).
Tax Collector and Property Appraiser were COBOL on NCR (then Unisys?). The Property Appraiser moved to SQL Server on Windows (not sure when but probably around 2000).
Tax Collector and Property Appraiser were COBOL on NCR (then Unisys?). The Property Appraiser moved to SQL Server on Windows (not sure when but probably around 2000).
1987:
Due to capacity problems with the Prime 450 MCSO goes on its own. Moves SSS COPS and GovernMentor accounting system to a Prime 9955-II with two 770MB Winchester drives.
The county continues using the Prime 450 but begin shifting to Sun Microsystems, Sparc workstations running OA software (possibly Asterix?) with storage on a large Sun server running Solaris.
1988:
Through a deal with ISMA, MCSO buys Business Information Solutions (BIS) Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management System (COPS II) and gets Corrections Management System (CMS) for free. Although BIS referred to CAD as their own they actually hired Hitech Systems to write it. As delivered the CMS system was very incomplete, with only booking screens and no provision for reactivating old bookings, releasing inmates, and populating subsequent bookings with inmates' prior information.
1990(?):
MCSO upgrades the Prime 9955-II super mini to a Prime 6650 with the original two 770MB winchester discs and two 1550MB discs. BOCC wants to charge SOE to host her Anacomp system. MCSO agrees to host them for free. SOE moved off of BOCC 450 to the 6650.
1988:
Through a deal with ISMA, MCSO buys Business Information Solutions (BIS) Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management System (COPS II) and gets Corrections Management System (CMS) for free. Although BIS referred to CAD as their own they actually hired Hitech Systems to write it. As delivered the CMS system was very incomplete, with only booking screens and no provision for reactivating old bookings, releasing inmates, and populating subsequent bookings with inmates' prior information.
1990(?):
MCSO upgrades the Prime 9955-II super mini to a Prime 6650 with the original two 770MB winchester discs and two 1550MB discs. BOCC wants to charge SOE to host her Anacomp system. MCSO agrees to host them for free. SOE moved off of BOCC 450 to the 6650.
The Sheriff's office also purchased a small Prime 2450 (barely visible behind the glass door in the bottom right corner of the photo below). The plan was to try and interest the fire and EMS side of the house to use the Hitech CAD. At that time the EOC was running about six Intergraph workstations, at probably twice to four times the cost of the 20 workstations the Sheriff's dispatchers used). After about six months of configuring the Hitech (now dba Pulsiam) CAD to operate as specified by the EOC managers, Bill Sprague pulled the plug on that plan. AFAIK the EOC continues using Intergraph (now Hexagon).
1996-97(?):
Hitech Systems RMS given to MCSO. Most data (excluding ARREST and AFILE) converted over two years.
1997:
CMS moved to the DG and the Prime 6650 decommissioned.
1999:
Hitech RMS in use. BIS COPS discontinued.
2003(?):
SOE gets new elections software, no longer hosted by MCSO.
2005:
MCSO purchases an HP A500. Hitech Systems migrates everything (CAD, RMS, CMS) to the new HP.
2007:
Hitech Systems Jail Management System (JMS) installed.
2009:
Jupiter Island Police Department (JIPD) begins using CAD and Mobile (running off of MCSO servers).
2010:
Hitech converts everything to UniVerse and migrates off of the one HP A500 onto two Dell PE2950 servers (not a cluster). One server for CAD and mapping, and the other server for RMS and JMS. Though in late 2017 the CAD/mapping server began having disc problems and its contents were moved onto the other (RMS and JMS) server.
2011:
Hitech converts BIS ARREST and AFILE.
MCSO migrates to yet another accounting package.
2013:
2018:
MCSO migrated to a Dell PowerEdge R720 cluster running Red Hat Linux on VMs, with two NetApp FAS2552 SAS, each with 750GB iscsi SANs.
2020:
The Martin County School District (MCSD) used a character based (terminal) application for payroll and accounting (and other stuff) since at least 1990, though I believe around 2016 the UI is web based. I believe MCSD are still using this “TERMS” package written in COBOL though last I heard they have replaced the Unisys HW with an IBM AS400.
The County decommissions the Prime 450. The last time I saw the Prime 450 it was sitting in a storage room that had once been used by the Krueger flower farm that preceded the building at 800 SE Monterey Rd.
1991:
Hitech Systems Alan Alters agrees to give MCSO RMS when available, if we agree to buy Hitech’s CAD. At some point in the 90s MCSO which had previously not been on maintenance with Hitech Systems starting paying maintenance, probably around 1992.
1992:
MCSO (Sheriff Robert Crowder's first year) set out to replace the Prime 6650 which was costly to run. Bids from IBM, Data General, and Unisys were sought. Test machines provided for testing. The Sheriff chooses and buys the Data General DG 8500 Aviion (the MCSOs first foray into Unix) for a fifth of the cost of the Prime and moves BIS RMS to it. Most dumb terminals are replaced with IBM clone PCs. MCSO buys Hitech Systems CAD. Sheriff replaces the old GovernMentor Pick-based accounting system with one from Tresun (later bought by Pentamation) that uses Informix SE, running on a small DG 5200 Aviion.
1991:
Hitech Systems Alan Alters agrees to give MCSO RMS when available, if we agree to buy Hitech’s CAD. At some point in the 90s MCSO which had previously not been on maintenance with Hitech Systems starting paying maintenance, probably around 1992.
1992:
MCSO (Sheriff Robert Crowder's first year) set out to replace the Prime 6650 which was costly to run. Bids from IBM, Data General, and Unisys were sought. Test machines provided for testing. The Sheriff chooses and buys the Data General DG 8500 Aviion (the MCSOs first foray into Unix) for a fifth of the cost of the Prime and moves BIS RMS to it. Most dumb terminals are replaced with IBM clone PCs. MCSO buys Hitech Systems CAD. Sheriff replaces the old GovernMentor Pick-based accounting system with one from Tresun (later bought by Pentamation) that uses Informix SE, running on a small DG 5200 Aviion.
1996-97(?):
Hitech Systems RMS given to MCSO. Most data (excluding ARREST and AFILE) converted over two years.
1997:
CMS moved to the DG and the Prime 6650 decommissioned.
1999:
Hitech RMS in use. BIS COPS discontinued.
2003(?):
SOE gets new elections software, no longer hosted by MCSO.
2005:
MCSO purchases an HP A500. Hitech Systems migrates everything (CAD, RMS, CMS) to the new HP.
2007:
Hitech Systems Jail Management System (JMS) installed.
2009:
Jupiter Island Police Department (JIPD) begins using CAD and Mobile (running off of MCSO servers).
2010:
Hitech converts everything to UniVerse and migrates off of the one HP A500 onto two Dell PE2950 servers (not a cluster). One server for CAD and mapping, and the other server for RMS and JMS. Though in late 2017 the CAD/mapping server began having disc problems and its contents were moved onto the other (RMS and JMS) server.
2011:
Hitech converts BIS ARREST and AFILE.
MCSO migrates to yet another accounting package.
2013:
March of 2013 the MCSO and the EOC agreed to entertain quotes from both Hitech and Intergraph to run both sides of dispatch (LE and Fire/EMS). The Hitech quote to incorporate the six to eight fire/EMS dispatch stations was something like $1.2M to $1.5M if I recall correctly. I'd heard that Intergraph's quote to absorb the 200 workstations in the Sheriff's office was many times that amount, as expected... something like $4M to $6M.
2018:
MCSO migrated to a Dell PowerEdge R720 cluster running Red Hat Linux on VMs, with two NetApp FAS2552 SAS, each with 750GB iscsi SANs.
2020:
MCSO migrates to different software (TriTech) and computers.
The Martin County School District (MCSD) used a character based (terminal) application for payroll and accounting (and other stuff) since at least 1990, though I believe around 2016 the UI is web based. I believe MCSD are still using this “TERMS” package written in COBOL though last I heard they have replaced the Unisys HW with an IBM AS400.
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