CPS was founded by Michael Burmeister-Brown (Mike Brown)[1] in 1980 in Central Point, Oregon, for which the company was named.

[5] CPS also offered a hardware add-in expansion card, the Copy II PC Deluxe Board, which was bundled with its own software.

CPS also released Option Board hardware with TransCopy software for duplicating copy-protected floppy diskettes.

CPS licensed the Mirror, Undelete, and Unformat components of PC Tools to Microsoft for inclusion in MS-DOS versions 5.x and 6.x as external DOS utilities.

CPS File Manager was ahead of its time, with features such as view ZIP archives as directories and a file/picture viewer.

CPS's other major desktop product was Central Point Anti-Virus (CPAV), whose main competitor was Norton AntiVirus.