Suite 407, 1595 Southview Drive SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1B 0A1
Phone: (406) 662-0136, FAX: (866) 223-7132
Address: Suite 407, 1595 Southview Drive SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1B 0A1
Phone: (406) 662-0136 FAX: (866) 223-7132
Email: Click here
In recent years the Internet has become a key to our strategy. 95%+ of our customers are on the Internet and we can provide excellent and timely service using this medium. We have involved ourselves in a wide range of Internet activities related to the ceramic industry, this is all being done in order to ultimately make INSIGHT software completely integral with the internet ceramic community. Sites such as ceramicmaterials.info communicate with INSIGHT, are built on complex database foundations and are much more complex than INSIGHT itself.
Digitalfire Corporation is a company dedicated to the dream of enhancing the power of ceramic calculations and physical testing and seeing them and materials information made available to more people and companies in the ceramic industry. Since the introduction of the first micro-computers in the late 1970's, we have worked to develop software and printed materials to this end. Digitalfire Corporation has close ties to a number of ceramic manufacturers and raw materials producers and maintains contacts with ceramic related institutions, periodicals and companies around the world.
We published a quarterly newsletter on the use of computers in formulation and trouble-shooting from 1988-1996 and maintained a BBS from 1992 to 1996, and a Web Site since 1995. We publish our own books and manufacture software products in our own facility.
24-year-old Tony Hansen, the plant technician at Plainsman Clays in Alberta, Canada, began development of INSIGHT in 1978. This was shortly after the introduction of the first personal computers by companies like Altair, Apple and Tandy. The first commercial version ran on the Tandy Model III and featured separate recipe and formula frames (the term 'window' was not yet conceived). He subsequently ported it to the first commonly available laptop computer, the Tandy Model 100. The IBM PC was introduced in 1982 and INSIGHT was running on it by 1983. Shortly after that he got INSIGHT running on the first Macintosh 128K, albeit in a PC-like fashion. Windows and more Macintosh friendly versions followed in the early nineties. Tony Hansen continues to be the prime developer of INSIGHT. He introduced FORESIGHT in 1990 as the first fully relational recipe, ceramic calculation and physical test record keeping system, it is still used by many companies today (some have hundreds of thousands of tests in their databases). INSIGHT has been used around the world since 1980 and we are confident in calling it the international standard by which others are measured. Full page ads for INSIGHT first appeared in ceramics monthly in the middle 80s. The fist INSIGHT BBS went online in 1992 and the first website in 1995 (the year after the HTML internet was born). Digitalfire pioneered eBook publishing long before it went prime time and developed its own eCommerce sites to support and sell INSIGHT starting in 1998. Current work is done on our down servers and involves cutting edge database sites that form international communities of material experts and generate moment-in-time eBooks. The past two decades have required a lot of tenacity to 'hang on' until the ceramic world fully appreciates the value of ceramic chemistry. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent and many hard lessons learned.
To provide service to you. We spend most of our time helping customers via email and provide volumes of free information on this and connected web sites.
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