International PC Owners
Moby ID: 3163
- IPCO - Common acronym (from 1982)
- IBM Personal Computer Owners Group - Early name (from 1982)
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IPCO was a user group for IBM PC owners, operating out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later Poland, Ohio, USA. The founders were two engineers and their wives, Jim and Cindy Cookinham and Steve and Windy Hart.
The group's selection of software - which covered business, science, graphics, education, utilities and games - was put together from user contributions. For an annual membership due ($15 within the US, $20 for Canada and $45 worldwide, as of 1982), IPCO members were eligible to participate in the group's software exchange: submit a program to the IPCO catalog, and receive a diskette with 4 free programs of your choice. The catalog included 80 programs as of early 1983, and over 175 by July that same year; by mid-1984 the count had grown to over 300 programs (selling for $3 per program or $6 per disk), plus 20 compilation disks ($15 each).
Other productions included the bimonthly "IPCO Info" newsletter, with information on PC hardware/software (including the emerging shareware/public domain arena), reader requests, tips, comments, and even gossip culled from BBS messages.
Credited on 33 Games from 1981 to 1983
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| The Original Buck Mann's Poker for One (1983 on DOS) |
| States and Capitals (1983 on DOS) |
| Baseball (1983 on DOS) |
| Blackjack (1983 on DOS) |
| Capture the Enemy Space Ship (1983 on DOS) |
| Combots (1983 on DOS) |
| El Grinch (1983 on DOS) |
| Fifteen Puzzle (1983 on DOS) |
| Flipper (1983 on DOS) |
| Football (1983 on DOS) |
| Memory (1983 on DOS) |
| Racecar (1983 on DOS) |
| Slot (1983 on DOS) |
| Tank (1983 on DOS) |
| Yahtzee (1983 on DOS) |
| Black Box (1982 on DOS) |
| Desert (1982 on DOS) |
| Droids (1982 on DOS) |
| Golf (1982 on DOS) |
| Missle Strike (1982 on DOS) |
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Trivia +
Company address and contact information as of 1982-3:
James B. Cookinham
IPCO, Inc.
P.O. Box 10426
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15234
(412) 561-1857
CompuServe: 71545467
As of 1984:
International PC Owners, Inc.
P.O. Box 5100
Poland, OH 44514
USA
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