Re: Interesting Find

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the mid-1970s I was looking at migrating from a Sys/3, Mod 6.  DEC 
asked me to consider their product. They asked me for a simple RPG 
source and a few data records.  I provided a one-up mailing label 
program and some fabricated name & address records.  Then we scheduled a 
demo day in Waltham, Mass.  The agenda was to key in the source, compile 
it, and run it with the data to print some labels.  It was an end-to-end 
proof of concept to demonstrate that DEC could migrate existing RPG to 
their box.

It did not go well, even though they had rehearsed it thoroughly.

On 7/28/2015 12:28 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> I know for a fact - a friend of mine worked there - that DEC had a group of
> people whose job was to wrestle customers away from IBM. Their main tool?
> An RPG compiler.
>
> Camiel