![]() ![]() You may run the program as a non-administrative user. You must create a desktop shortcut to the exe file. It runs in Win-95, Win-98, Win-XP, Win-ME and Win-Vista. As far as I am aware, Tom quite willfully abandoned his software in 1997. ![]() TODAY: Some new printers may complain about printing the output file as the program attempts direct calls to the printer. The program was later upgraded to Win 3.1 with a GUI based on Borland’s C++ running over much of the original complied BASIC code on a runtime environment in Win3.1 on the underlying DOS kernel. The BASIC program initially ran on in DOS operating environment. The releases prior to 7.2 required a parallel port security key that feed the parallel port printer. This was the last release was post Win-3.2 for WorkGroups, possible as late as August 1995/96 with Win-95. Release 7.2 Win” to all his fire sprinkler contractors and designers. ![]() ABANDONED WHEN? Before closing up shop in 1997, Tommy Walsh gave away “Sprinkler-CALC. While moving two years ago (May/June 2017), I lost that source code as well as the zipped installer file. I latter talked to Tom before 1997 and obtained the source code for $100. I left that now-defunct employer in 1992. Around 1990 we upgraded that PC-AT with a 100 MB HDD drive running Windows 3.1 and Sprinkler-CALC Win. Two years latter, say 1999, we upgraded to an IBM clone PC-AT at a blazing 16 MHZ with a math co-processor and two 3.5” diskette bays. ![]() The PC, dot matrix printer and software cost us a mere $6,000 as we were paying Tom a hefty amount to do our fire sprinkler hydraulic calculations. HOW I GOT INVOLVED: I, Thomas J Killeen, PE (MA, NH, ME) meet him as a designer trainee (No NICET, No PE yet) about a year after I was hired by my second employer in Dec 1984, so say 1986-1987 window, when we bought our first IBM clone PC-XT running at 4 MHZ with two 5.25 floppy disk drives running DOS and his program (DOS version). A Google search on Novemfor "Sprinkler-CALC Release 7.2 Win" yields many results, none pointing to this abandoned program. He lived as a retired engineer in Narragansett, RI and died suddenly at 89 years old on Februwhile on vacation in Palm Beach, FL. Thomas J Walsh, PE (RI Professional Engineer, Licensed in RI as PE.0007923 - Mato June 30, 2015, now shows as inactive) started Walsh Engineering Inc, at Quonset Point Industrial Park, North Kingstown, RI, USA ( Fire Protection Consultants for fire sprinkler contractors and architects) around 1973 and closed up operations on or about 1997. EN Walsh Engineering Sprinkler-Calc 7.2 Win 7.2 ![]()
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