Bruce, My bookshelf still contains the documentation for the 1987 version. All of the various software versions are stored in a safe container.
I had extensive experience using APL at the New York Times. We did a major part of the annual budget prep and analysis using the first two IBM desktop units that ran APL. Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [email protected] tel: 1-504-737-3293 >________________________________ > From: Bruce Chitiea <[email protected]> >To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:38 PM >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fail: Computed Column Shows all Nulls (-0-) > >Albert: > >Think of all the excellent products and user communities which have >disappeared over the past thirty years (Victor 9000, MultiMate, STSC APL >anyone?). To find R:Base alive and well as one of the highest-integrity >product/user-communities in three decades is ... something. Find the >word. Something else. Kudos, Razzak and crew! > >I recall our first application in ... 1985? Took the US Steel detailer's >book, ginned up a parameter description of steel shapes and take-outs; >feeding them into a floppy-based NASA-developed public domain 3-D >program to produce multi-story structures, rotatable in real-time on >8088 XTs (no 8087 co-processor required). > >Why I dropped it, I cannot justify. Maybe it was a girl, or tequila; my >grey hairs shrug their collective shoulders and swear they can't >remember. Uh-Huh. Probably the tequila. > >I could just kick myself. > >Cheers, > >Bruce Chitiea >SafeSectors, Inc. > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fail: Computed Column Shows all Nulls (-0-) >> From: Albert Berry <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, February 13, 2012 6:48 pm >> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) >> >> >> With something as all inclusive as R:Base, every day is a big learning >> day. I've been doing it now since the mid 1980's and still hit a dead >> end from time to time, particularly with the way R:Azzak and crew have >> pushing R:Base to limits one could never have expected. >> >> By the way, this list is great, is it not? I've been on here since Harry >> Bass had one. My first R:Base was 2.11 (R:Base for DOS). Bill Downall >> was out there for us all. He's not quite as years challenged as I <GRIN> >> >> >> >> >> On 13/02/2012 5:02 PM, Bruce Chitiea wrote: >> > Thanks Albert. Big learning day. >> > >> > Bruce Chitiea >> > SafeSectors, Inc. >> > 909.238.9012 cell >> > > > > > > >
