https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SV-H8qEeAc

 

 

A couple of minor notes:

 

In Oct, 1972, at State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance,

I purchased the FIRST copy of SAS after their first

announcement - maybe 2 inches in DataMation I think:

 

"The Statistical Analysis System is available from 

 the Institute of Statistics at North Carolina State 

 University, a package of programs that includes 

 over 100,000 lines of source code,  1/3 ASM,

1/3 FORTRAN,  and 1/3 PL/1 for statistical analysis, 

 with reports and  graphs."

 

The price was exactly $100.00 in 1972.

 

I think the $1500 price was several years later!

 

And, while Tony was correct that he created MANY

unique INFORMATs to handle those strange SMF binary

date/time/etc fields, he answered my first call to

NCSU after receiving their product description,

when I asked about support for Packed Decimal,

and he replied "well, we haven't got around to

documenting it yet, but if you just type in

PD4. it'll work just fine!"  

 

AND IT DID.

 

Barry

 

 

Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD

President-Programmer

MXG Software

Merrill Consultants

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Fax:  214 350 3694 - Still works, received as email

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