Date:         Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:29:23 -0500
Reply-To:     Anne.Marie.Smith@ASTRAPHARMACEUTICALS.COM
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From:         Anne.Marie.Smith@ASTRAPHARMACEUTICALS.COM
Subject:      Re: SAS-L History
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SAS-lers,
Thanks for asking these questions, Ian,  history is very interesting :-)!
Tim, thanks for sharing your oldest messages, kewl!

>On the other hand, how many of you non-university types <g> were on the
Internet back in '87? .. myself, I used to hang out on OS/2 BBS's then and
>until the mid-90's, but not the internet.

I was dabbling in SAS/Graph back in '85-86 on a big BLUE, IBM mainframe,
doing some gov. air force contract work, but not on the internet though!

Regards,
Anne
http://www.rainbow-softwr.com






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From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Date: 01/12/2000 04:54 PM GMT
Subject:  Re: SAS-L History

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So, *unless* June shows up  ..... MELVIN is our winner !!!!!

Unbelievable: 1987  .. to me that's pretty impressive.


Lastly: Tim you *are* a most excellent pack-rat <g>.

BTW, can anyone trump this?

Later





At 01:15 PM 01/12/2000 +1100, Tim CHURCHES wrote:
> >>> WHITLOI1 <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM> 12/01/2000 11:40:28 >>> asks:
> > When precisely did SAS-L start?  Who were the movers?  Any old stories?  Are
any
> > of the origninals still on SAS-L?
>
>Hold on, I'll just scroll back through the 1,238,567 messages in my e-mail
inbox.....ah yes, here we are, the earliest SAS-L message  I can find:
>
>=========================================
> >From SAS-L_Archives Thu Nov 13    8:25:00 1986Reply-To:     June Genis
<GA.JRG@STANFORD>Sender:       SAS Discussion <SAS-L@MARIST>From:         June
Genis <GA.JRG@STANFORD>Subject:      SAS Survey Well, now that we seem to be all
set up on SAS-L I thought I'd startthings off by sending out a little survey.
If you'll respond to meI'll summarize to the list in one fell swoop. Node
Name:SAS Coordinator: (name and EM address)Mainframe Machine/Operating
system:Products installed:            <-- repeat this and above as needed(for
SAS/GRAPH include supported devices)PC/SAS:Maximum license size:Copies
distributed to date:Products included:cost to end users:distribution method:
(bookstore, bring your won disks and make acopy, network file server,
etc)administrivia:  (who does it, how much work, methodology, anythingelse you
think might be interesting or helpful to others) Briefly describe the kind of
support you supply your SAS users:(e.g. local documentation, classes,
consulting) To:  SAS-L@OREGON1============
============================
>
>I love the bit about summarising to the list... And how about this one?
>
>========================================
>Thu Nov 20   15:17:00 1986Reply-To:     <KLASSEN@UVVM>Sender:       SAS
Discussion <SAS-L@MARIST>From:         <KLASSEN@UVVM> Subject: SAS & VM monitor
data reduction/analysis Has anyone heard about an updated version of this SAS82
code?Whether from SAS, or from elsewhere?I've heard that there are many problems
with the "old" code. Melvin Klassen.========================================
>
>Sorry for the delay in replying, Melvin. Better late than never!
>I believe that the SAS82 code you are seeking has now been
>superceded by SAS00 code (aka SAS Version 8) but most of us
>are still waiting for it to be delivered....
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim Churches

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