Phil -
I'm happy to find someone who worked at the University of Waterloo.
Did you work on any of the great software that Waterloo wrote for
academic use? Like WATFOR, WATFIV, WATBOL, Lisp, Modula-2, WPascal,
WAT-C, Waterloo Basic, Student CMS, and WATFILE? We ran them all.
Waterloo really dropped the ball on the marketing of WATFILE. They
had both a CMS and a PC version of this wonderful tool. In many ways
it is superior to Excel. The site license for the CMS version was
reasonably priced but $495 per copy of the PC version was just too
high in the 1980s.
I still have copies of the Waterloo VM Modifications tapes. I used
quite a few of the mods.
/Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 43 years
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"Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock"
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:44:00 -0500 Phil Smith III said:
>Wow. This is OT, but this brings back memories: my VERY FIRST assignment after
>I signed my first contract to work at the University of Waterloo Department of
>Computing services (on my 19th birthday!) in 1980 was to write a MACTYPE
>command to extract members of MACLIBs and type them or save them to disk.
>Hundreds of miles from here and several thousand years ago...
>
>...phsiii
