
About Us • History • SEC Filings
In March 1972, present management acquired control
of School for Computer Studies Inc. via a so-called “Back Door
Merger.” As a first step, the Company disengaged itself from
the teaching of IBM punch card technology in the United States and
certain South and Central American counties and entered into patent
developments of various new technologies.
In its first effort, the Company designed a nonmagnetic security
plastic card system for nuclear powered electric generating plants.
As early as 1975, Kenilworth provided the system to 92 out of 112
plants in the United States, as well as for power plants under
construction elsewhere in the world. Earlier magnetic systems
could not be used
in nuclear power plants, which generated magnetic fields that distorted
the magnetic stripe. Kenilworth’s system used a chemically
read device, which overcame the problems associated with magnetic
fields and which also could not be counterfeited. Eventually, after
the Chernobyl and Five Mile Island nuclear power plant accidents,
the demand for Kenilworth Systems ebbed. More than thirty-five (35)
plants that had contracted for Kenilworth’s security system
never came online.
Kenilworth by 1987 had 61 software designers on its payroll. To
generate new business for its security system, it focused on
the casino business.
Casinos traditionally had two accounting systems: tokens, and
cash.
In July 1985 Nevada Governor Farris Bryant signed the legislation
allowing Kenilworth’s plastic chemically encoded cards to be
used. In 1988 the Totalizer Agency Board of Victoria (“TAB”),
Australia signed a contract with Kenilworth to develop cashless slot
machines (“Pokeys”). In November 1990 the first cashless
casino opened at the Menzie at the Rialto in Melbourne, Australia.
The casino 225 terminals that permitted virtual slot games play by
using, for the first time, touch finger operation. Kenilworth was
the first casino-oriented company to use touch pad technology for
slot machines.
Kenilworth incorporated into each slot machine a Commodore
B-2000 computer.
Kenilworth also started the first Internet wagering system
throughout Victoria. In doing so, it discovered that securing
the Internet
is impossible.
Kenilworth did not obtain any patents for its Australian
touch pad, computer driven slot machine and Internet technology,
as the contract
with the TAB provided that Kenilworth grant the TAB the
intellectual property rights to everything developed on their
behalf.
In 1988 Kenilworth developed and installed Time and Attendance
systems for department stores and the Chrysler Jefferson
North Automotive
assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan.
Kenilworth also supplied its security technology to identify
and segregate employees of radio and television stations
at the Kings
Palace in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Their officials had
approached the U.S. government, seeking the best security
technology
available, which recommended Kenilworth. Saudi officials
sought to segregate
employees by nationality was essential, as the Saudi
economy imports Egyptian, Pakistani and Palestinian
workers. In
case of a revolt
by any one of these groups, officials sought a method
of barring revolting nationals from facilities while
allowing
access to
the non-revolting groups, to ensure that they could
perform the necessary
work in secure stations.
In April 2003 Kenilworth introduced “Live Game Broadcast” proposed
legislation to the Nevada Legislature Judiciary Committee. It took
no action on the proposal.
The English Gaming Commission has proposed changes
to its gaming laws, to allow live game broadcast
for remote
wagering
and
fixed odd betting. Presently all gaming platforms
in the United Kingdom,
including Ireland, provide only pari-mutuel betting.
They look to Kenilworth to provide the live action
to their
platforms.
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