![]() ![]() 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.
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