Publisher - Pine Grove Software, LLC

About Pine Grove Software We released our first program as shareware for the new Apple IIe to one store in March 1983. As you might have guessed, it was a loan calculator. It sold exactly zero copies.Encouraged by such unbridled success, we decided to write a series of financial routines for the new IBM PC. These 22 routines were released in two parts in late 1984 as Finance I and Finance II . At the time, we had little money to market these two programs, so again, sales lagged. Consequently, we released them using shareware marketing in late 1985. (One disk vendor that we know of, was still distributing them as late as about 1995.) In 1987 or so, the routines were completely rewritten, combined into one program and released as SolveIT!, The Financial Calculator v2.0. The program has been updated several times and has sold 10s of thousands of copies. The New York Times called SolveIT! "Surprisingly fast." And in 1992 it was the 40th best selling shareware title out of thousands according to an independent survey of shareware disk vendors.In 1990, we released a subset of the now 32 calculators included in SolveIT! . The new program, known as AmortizeIT!, The Complete Loan Solution includes 6 calculators from the loan part of SolveIT! It was most recently updated in late 2003. It now is a full Windows 32-bit pro gram.Pine Grove Software Welcomes You. We have been publishing calculators for personal computers since 1983.