On Mar 26, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Ed Finnell wrote:
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There was big stinko at one of the SHAREs mid eighties. Chevron
had written PL/S and was willing to part with it to 'broaden the
base'.
Think it was RAND decided this was definite mainframe fertilizer
and were willing
to act as distributer(GMC 626
manure spreader comes to mind). Anyway they were passing out mini-
reels and
giving sessions left and right on Monday and Tuesday and about
Wednesday
became deathly quiet. Turns out couldn't give out any manuals to
go with it
'cause they were all copyrighted.
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At GUIDE it was offered on a 2400' reel I didn't have one handy (like
who carries a reel of tape around with them when they travel?)
I got the business card from the guy at Rand and promptly sent off a
full tape the week following GUIDE. I do remember there was a fuss
about IBM and the manual, but I thought the manual was on the tape, no?
I never heard back (I forgot about it). The next mini GUIDE(IIRC) is
when we heard about the **** hitting the fan. I am pretty sure this
was an Anahiem.
Ed
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