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FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Petitioners
Petitioners resided in Maple Valley, Washington, when they
filed the petition in this case.
Petitioner has a 2-year associate's degree in computer
science and data processing and worked as a computer operator and
programmer, systems analyst, and data processing manager before
1983.
Petitioners founded a firm called Seattle Distribution
Service, Inc. (SDSI), around 1980. Petitioner wife was the
bookkeeper for SDSI. SDSI distributed merchandise for importers.
Petitioner researched buying computer hardware and software for
SDSI. Petitioners bought a Burroughs system and off-the-shelf
software from a company called R&D Systems Development, which
petitioners had customized for their business. One reason
petitioner chose Burroughs was that it provided technical support
to its customers. Petitioner also investigated computer systems
offered by Honeywell, IBM, and Tandy.
2. Petitioners' Purchase of an Interest in Century Concepts
Petitioners first heard about Century Concepts, Inc.
(Century), from one of their friends, Dan Marinelli (Marinelli).
Marinelli was the office manager of a company named ITC Business
and Tax Counseling (ITC), which was run by Frank Dollar (Dollar).
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