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Page 8/The Battalion/Monday, September 19, 1983 vi n REPAIR WE COME TO YOUR CAR ALL TYPES OF REPAIRS AMERICAN & FOREIGN ALL WORK GUARANTEED 10% Discount with Student ID $4e -1125 OWNED AND OPERATED BY KENNETH ELMORE Phones big business Intecom skyrockets Want more than a desk job? Looking for an exciting and challeng ing career? Where each day is dif ferent? Many Air Force people have such a career as pilots and navigators. Maybe you can join them. Find out if you qualify. See an Air Force recruiter today. Paul W. Broadus (4|D9) 846-5521 (4p9) 846-679Q £> A great way of life United Press International ALLEN — InteCom has been selling its sophisticated telephone switching systems for less than three years and already next to its modem headquarters building stands the steel skeleton of an addition that will triple its space. The company has ambitious ex pansion plans. It was founded in 1978 and after three years of research and prepa ration made its first sale in 1981. That year revenues totaled $8.5 million. Last year InteCom’s sales leaped to $34 million. In the first six months of this year sales were $31 million and net income was $2.9 million. “One of our goals is to be a billion-dollar-a-year company in a 1990 time frame,” said marketing director R. W. Corcoran. Some analysts think the fast- moving company, launched with a big financial boost by the Exxon Corp., will achieve that billion- dollar goal by late in this decade. It now has a backlog of $91 million in orders to be delivered within the next 18 months. Intecom makes and sells private telephone exchange systems (PBXs) capable of carrying both voice and highspeed computer data over the same lines. Older and larger companies already are in that market — Rolm, Northern Telecom and even AT&T — to name the leaders. But InteCom has a couple of high-technology edges. The company’s Intonet device is a translator that allows one com puter to communicate to a diffe rent model computer, despite in- compatable hardware. If, for ex ample, a company’s engineering department prefers Wang compu ters while the marketing people want Apples, the InteCom system automatically will translate and send information from computer to computer. Such information then can be sent to a secretary using a Xerox word processing system. It might mean, for example, that information gathered on one computer can be procesed through unique software de veloped for a different type of computer. separate wiring for computer net works and office information sys tems. Intecom also is able to use effi cient fiber optic cable to wire up a phone network within a 50,000- foot area. Intecom’s customers include the University of Chicago, Coca- Cola, Conoco, McGrawHill, Duke Power, Brown & William son, Exxon, the University of De nver, Sun Oil, the Chicago Board of Trade, Grumman Aerospace, PPG Industries, Vought Corp. and Encyclopedia Brittanica. Intecom also has developed a high-speed linking system that offers the advantages of local area networks now being developed by office automation companies. All of this comes on one set of telephone wires — a big advan tage saving buyers the cost of And the company is getting re peat business. CIT Financial Ser vice, which bought the first sys tem sold by Intecom, has purch ased a second system, Corcoran said. McGraw-Hill bought an In- teCom system for a New Jersey facility, they came back and bought systems at two locations in New York City. “I think it’s going to be a pretty large company,” said Ralph Shive, senior analyst for the brokerage firm Rauscher Pierce Refsnes. Shive was asked if he was sur prised by InteCom’s rapid growth. PROBLEM PREGNANCY Are you considering Abortion? Confidential Free Pregnancy Testing & Referrals Call (713) 524-0548 Houston, Texas “Not really,” he said. “I met them (executives) before they went public. Right off the bat they gave me the feeling that they were extremely aggressive, that they had a clear idea of what they wanted to do and how to do it.” The market for voice telephone systems has been estimated to be $3.5 billion a year. When voice is combined with computer data in one system, the potential market is $6.8 billion, senior vice presi dent Tom Aschenbrenner said. InteCom is aiming at 6 percent market share by 1985. 6 ’ JOIN THE ASTOUNDING WEIGHT WATCHERS ACADEMIC AFFAIRS MEETING Open to all Interested Persons Time: September 19, 1983 8:30 ROOM 231 MSC Around town Red Cross honors hum radio club The Brazos County Chapter of the American Red Cross hi awarded a certificate of appreciation to the Texas A&.M W5ACJ Ham Radio Club for its help during Hurricane Alicia. i| For 48 hours during the worst of the hurricane Aug. 1"-| the club maintained round-the-clock, statewide contact \ other ham radio operators and answered questions from lix residents and evacuees in the Bryan High School shelterabo the safety of relatives in the coastal area. They worked in c ation with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service in thel County and the local Red Cross Chapter. The club’s faculty sponsor, Dr. Thomas W. Comstock ofthj engineering technology department, and its president, Schlichting, were sent a letter from the Red Cross commewj the group for its service to the community and state. 11*1 : i coopcil ■Braa Saddle 6c Sirloin sponsors barbeque The Texas A&M Saddle & Sirloin Club will hold its annual barbeque at 7 p.m. Tuesday, at the VFW Hall on FM 2SIS Speaking at the event will be Bill Clayton Jr., former tea Speaker of the House. Everyone is welcome to attend. Tidirti are $5 a person at the door and all new members can get in fret with their pledge letter “Bl Entries for All-Niter close Tuesday Tuesday is the last day entries will be accepted forthelntn- mural Aggie All-Niter. The event, to be held Sept. 23, »i feature basketball, volleyball, racquetball and handball® petitions, as well as a country and western dance, carnival gamti and prizes and movies. Schedules of the activities areavailali at the Intramural office in 159 East Kvle. Hun Class of 86 picnic tickets on sale The Class of’86 will sponsor a picnic on Sept. 25 at the Grove, from 4 to 6 p.m. Music, food and games will lx* provided Tickets are on sale for $3 in the main hall of the MSC throng this week. Free U registration opens Tuesday Registration for MSC Free U classes for the fall semestenvil be open Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. inS Memorial Student Center. Brochures of the courses offered™ be picked up in the MSC, and at Sbisa, Duncan and the Com mons dining halls. Applications for teachers and for committer members also are still available. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalionollitf in 216 Reed McDonald. Michael Rumuors ;aid United Press I CLEAR LAKE d Thornberg ha ous notions aboi He wants to a lose who make t ratfalls and one- Thornberg feel ■ of time until a ame is establish) make sure it is le feels a tribute e as far away frou 'oast glitter as p< "I kind of wai king clean,” he bis to be a legil lass comedians. Thornberg he Hall of Humor, mblished a cou] and sponsors ; phone-in joke lin term goal is museum dedicat Envisioned is; phefs food r United Press I PEEKSKILL, lindred chefs ar jgredients for tb fownie, and 3,i siting to eat it. IF the mamm tiewv. 45-foot-l teaks the Gui i'orld Records w unday, it will be (msecutive food The Hudson R as already captui brld records — melet, a 1,058- jeh, an 80-foot-l 'ide cake, a 12-fo< bm ball and a 4( lot-wide serving Pat Belth, wl |e 100 bakers, s rill contain 500 pt edients, 350 egg f oil and 350 hal The brownie x ake 90 minutes lelth said. Chickf Trip t( Home: Baked Ice Te,