About Marble Computer

Since 1968 Marshal Crawford (co-founder of DCD) had the vision to see that COBOL had the potential to be the most powerful computer language ever written. DCD (Data Correlation and Documentation System) was created with less that 20,000 lines of code. In 1975, soon after the development of the DCD package, Marshal Crawford and Fred Noble joined forces to start Marble Computer.

 

Over time DCD continues to evolved as COBOL software with an ingenious algorithm to capture what many thought impossible and enforced Marshal's belief about COBOL. Currently, this user friendly and commanding COBOL software contains over 150,000 lines of code within more than 135 program modules. DCD has expanded to a line of products that promise today's COBOL programmer the most comprehensive, lightning fast and powerful utilities ever created for COBOL. Our COBOL mainframe products have been designed around our world famous application, DCD which is designed to dramatically reduce the time and resulting costs involved in maintenance of the user’s existing COBOL programs.

Marshal has coauthored five highly successful books for learning COBOL; they are published by Prentice Hall, and used by Carnegie Mellon and other leading Computer institutions. His passion is designing new programs and utilities, troubleshooting client's problems as well as giving lectures on COBOL.

Marble Computer's COBOL products have provided service to many of the world's largest firms and governments in excess of thirty years. The quality of any software product is defined by one word, "Reliability". The ability to maintain such a prestigious client list emanates from our effort at building better software. The customer's needs must always come first. At Marble Computer, we have delivered for 25 + years and will continue doing so - guaranteed.