Company History

Inductel was founded by Allan Pekary in 1985 in California's Silicon Valley with the idea to create a dictionary that would run on a personal computer.  People, who work on computers, could then use their computers when they needed a dictionary to quickly and efficiently look up definitions rather than have go to a bookshelf.

Inductel sold its first product, a Standard English dictionary, on floppy diskettes, in 1987. PC Magazine had written an article about Inductel, and that generated a lot of interest in our new product, we got lots of phone calls about it, and before long we were in the mail-order business delivering it.  

In 1988, in response to demand, Inductel came out with its Scientific and Technical dictionaries.

Then in 1990, with the help of a medical transcriptionist, we came out with our Inductel Medical Dictionary.

In 1992 Inductel began selling it's products at a new venue, the computer show.  Inductel started at the National Production computer fairs throughout California. Later, we sold at the Comdex expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.  

Inductel came out with its MicroLibrary in 1992.  The Inductel MicroLibrary is a combination package which Inductel created to contain all of its dictionaries together as a set.  

Inductel went nationwide, selling our dictionaries at computer fairs, shows, and expos from Pomona, California to Edison, New Jersey.

We offered only a single version of our software then: a IBM PC, and PC compatible version for DOS (disk operating system). Then along came the Apple Macintosh, so we added a Mac version to our software line.  Soon thereafter, Microsoft came out with a new, similar operating system called Windows, so we developed a version of our software for Windows.

The public wanted images, audio, and videos with their dictionaries. Inductel went to work and upgraded all of our products to meet the requests.

Initially Inductel sold its products only on floppy diskettes. There was a growing demand for software on CDROM. Inductel began formatting all of its products for CDROM. Then around 1995 everybody was going online.  The internet and the world wide web had arrived.  So, Inductel developed its website and went online offering our products by download as well as on CDROM.  Times change, and today Inductel sells its products as software downloads exclusively.