Re: New Subject: Series/1

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

R. Bruce,

>actually, the 5100 was the original PC

But they didn't call it that then.  I didn't work on the 5100, but I did have to
do an order entry system on a 5110.  In fact, this was for a customer who ran a
S/1 at corporate, and put 5110's at branch offices with Bi-sync nightly batches
for exchanging inventory and order data, etc.

The 51xx really put the "basic" in the basic language.  Although it had ISAM
builtin, character variables were limited to *one* letter followed by the $, and
numeric variables were limited to one letter and an optional single digit.

Made mneumonic variables names fun.  I ended up using arrays for all kinds of
stuff just to get more than 26 variables.

Doug

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