In 1978, Paul Farmer and his father decided to computerize their businesses. Paul had owned a coffee service company in Wichita KS since 1969 and his father, Paul Sr. had owned the Roto-Rooter franchise in Wichita since 1960. Jane Jantz (Paul's sister) was teaching computer technology at Wichita State University and programming at NCR. She decided to "retire" and raise a family. Back then, you couldn't buy very many computer programs, so she agreed to write the software for the two healthy and growing businesses.

The software became a labor of love and grew into a family affair. If "Little Paul" needed something special, he would get together with "Big Paul" and together they would get Jane to write it. Dad would hold a grandchild while Jane would program. Computers would be scattered in pieces around the office and mom would cry, "you're going to electrocute yourselves!" At midnight the spouses would pull the plugs and tell us to go to bed.

In 1985, "JaRay" (Jane and her husband Ray) was officially born. Ray was a hardware architect and figured out a way to interface caller-id into the program and set up a network system using SCO Zenix on "high powered" 386 computers. It was quite the deal. Paul sold his coffee business and went to work for the multi-national company that bought it and managed their branch operations through out the US and Canada. Dad continued to work with Jane growing the applications and kids. Other Roto-Rooter franchises started buying the system. Although Paul enjoyed purchasing and managing the branch operations, the travel was taking a toll with his family. He also missed the family computer operations.

In 1991, mom approached everyone with the idea of taking JaRay to the next step and offering it "for real" as a serious application. It took Paul almost a year to quit because of his speaking obligations, but in September of 1992, JaRay went to the next level. For two months it was a flurry of Ideas, dreams, and hopes; writing training manuals, and setting up marketing plans. Then dad had a heart attack and died Nov 8th. Although the pain and grief was almost unbearable, the family pulled together and supported each other. Our faith and love of God grew. With 8 siblings, the pain was divided and the joys multiplied. Grandchildren and great grandchildren kept coming. Jane and Paul helped mom manage the Roto-Rooter franchise and supported the current customers. We put the software marketing on hold. But the application continued to grow because we used it and needed it in the business.

Gradually more and more Roto-Rooter franchises found out about the program and purchased it. They also become like family to us and we helped them grow and manage their businesses. We cried when they lost loved ones and helped them market new business when times were slow. We helped them transition between generations. We've known and loved their families.

In 2001, we started hosting the application because some of the franchises were having problems with local computer techs and lost data because of improper backup procedures and dishonest employees. It worked so well, that we made a business decision that we would no longer sell the application to companies that wanted to host it on their own computer system. We wound up supporting the local networks and simply could not offer the level of support and products that we had developed on local systems. We had multiple servers doing different functions (gps, caller-id, scanning, security) and it was too costly for the customers to duplicate the systems. We had also achieved certifications with major wireless carriers, credit-card gateways, data warehouses, telephone companies and other partners to host their applications that could not be duplicated on individual company computers.

On January 18, 2002 Mgmt TV Inc. dba Famhost was incorporated in the state of Kansas. It became the hosting vehicle to run the JaRay program. We've since added Linkwriter (wireless digital pen), GPS Cop (vehicle tracking and maintenance), and BizYak (corporate communications, caller-id, and call recording). Our clients include most major Roto-Rooter franchises, but we also serve other franchise systems, plumbing, hvac, health insurance, home health-care, transportation, and a myriad of other service businesses.