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Our History
1981: Scott A. Goss graduated as valedictorian of United Christian Academy, Port Arthur, Texas. He attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas for 4 years, majoring in Computer Science.
1986: After several years as the PC programmer at a financial institution, Scott formed
PCS (Personal
Computer Systems) in
Port Arthur, Texas.
PCS built and sold PC's and wrote custom software.
During its' first year, PCS was featured several times in the
local newspaper.
In December 1986 Scott was named "Texan of the Year" by Texas Monthly Magazine and was featured as "The New
Desperado" for his entrepreneurship in starting PCS.
1987: PCS began offering classroom PC training. During that year Scott wrote several PC articles ("Bits and PC's") which were published in the Southeast Texas Business Review.
1990: PCS moved to New Iberia, Louisiana where it continued successful growth through PC sales and repairs, custom programming, training and networking.
1995: Scott's focus shifted from PC sales and programming to providing Support On Site for networks, hardware, software and training. PC S.O.S. was born!
1998: PC S.O.S. began providing Support On Site for small businesses, home businesses and residences in the greater Houston area.
2002: PC S.O.S. CO became our affiliate, providing Support On Site in Southwest Colorado.
2007: PC S.O.S. launched its presence on the World Wide Web @ www.PcsosTexas.com.
2008: PC S.O.S. launched The LifeRing, a quarterly e-newsletter.
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What is SOS?
SOS is the Morse code letters of the international call for help.
The SOS signal was first adopted by the German government in 1905. It was to be repeated by a ship in distress. The following year it was established as an international call for help.
SOS was a continuous sequence of 3 dots, 3 dashes and 3 dots, or ". . . — — — . . .". In Morse code 3 dots comprise the letter S, and 3 dashes comprise the letter O, so the call for help soon became known as "SOS".
The letters "SOS" do not refer to any words. The sequence was chosen because ". . . — — — . . ." is easy to transmit quickly and easy to recognize.
But SOS soon became associated with phrases such as "Save Our Ship", "Save Our Souls", "Survivors On Ship", "Save Our Sailors", "Stop Other Signals", "Sink Or Swim" and "Send Out Sailors".
SOS
has also been used as a visual call for help made by 3 short, 3 long, and 3
short flashes of light.
SOS
can also be spelled out using rocks or logs or written in snow or sand.
SOS is easily recognized upside down and backwards!
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Our Privacy Policy
We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter or fill out a form.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
• To personalize your experience
(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
• To improve our website
(we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
• To improve customer service
(your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
• To send periodic emails
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Do we use cookies?
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Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
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Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
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Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
www.PCsosTexas.com
Houston, TX 77064
Harris County
Info@PCsosTexas.com
281-788-7143
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