Great story! Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 3:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Tony Barr on the History of SAS 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
