The PC industry is today experiencing changes as dramatic as those that revolutionized the computer industry in the early 1980's. Huge companies like IBM and DEC, companies that once dominated computing, have given way to new corporations that can respond quickly to changing products, technology and customer expectations. Keeping pace with this rapid evolution is no small feat. Innovative and responsive companies have taken the lead in helping bring this new technology to the business customer. Companies like Dash.

Dash, Inc. is a Kansas corporation in Kansas City, Kansas. The company was founded in 1987 with the charter of fulfilling the need in the VAR channel for a strong regional distributor that could offer a broad product line and comprehensive technical support to VAR's and their clients.

Dave Allen, President of Dash, has built his career on bringing technology to the PC industry. Holder of three patents relating to magnetic recording, Mr. Allen founded TallGrass Technologies in 1981. TallGrass began shipping the industry's first hard-disk system for IBM-PC computers in November 1981 and the first tape backup system for PC's in 1982.

As a result of a support-centered approach to distribution, Dash has grown steadily during its 24-year history while competing distributors have come and gone. Dash's customers are almost exclusively VARs, whose clients range from small to Fortune-500. Dash was the first in the region to offer full system-integration services to its VAR's. Manufacturers like D-Link. Teac, Samsung, Quantum, Aiwa, Fujitsu, and Philips/Magnavox routinely consult our widely recognized technical staff for assistance in product testing and troubleshooting.

Building on a background in the product development and manufacturing process, Dash added manufacturing to the original distribution operations. In the telecommunication industry, Dash was the developer/manufacturer of the Open Phone System, a PC-based PBX utilizing state-of-the-art microcomputer technology and open application-software architecture. Recently sold to a California-based startup, Picazo Communications, the Open Phone System Division continues to bring the advances of the personal computer revolution to business telecommunications. For the PC industry Dash developed a line of industrial PC enclosures, that includes ruggedized truck-mounted PC equipment developed for Pepsi Food Service.

Today, Dash is a $14 million company shipping aproximately 600 complete systems per month in addition to parts for its VARs' use. Dash's conservative approach to choosing manufacturers and products, plus its enduring commitment to support, inspires loyalty among its customers and employees that is the envy of Dash's competitors. By providing its 4-state region (KS, MO, NE, IA) with fast, economical, 1-day UPS-Ground service, Dash has filled a niche that the large national distributors cannot.