Yes they were finished.  I worked with them while managing a DP department.
 They were delivered with source code.  At the time the HP-3000 was fairly
new to me, coming from 12 years of IBM mainframe experience.  I remember
talking with the HP rep about what language the systems were written in,
and he assured me it was Cobol.  Imagine my suprise when I found out that
all the programs except 1 was in Cobol.  That 1 was the actual student
scheduling program, written in SPL!  Everything else was fluff.  Well, it
was time to learn a new language!!!

Ric


At 11:50 AM 3/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm curious about something again ;)
>
>In the paper "The Birth of IMAGE", Fred White writes the following:
>(see http://www.adager.com/TechnicalPapersHTML/BirthOfImage.html),
>>
>> A special section, headed by Lee Johnson and independent of the systems
>> lab, was working on other lower-priority, second-release projects: SIS
>> (Student Information System) SAS (Student Accounting System), QUERY (a
>> file inquiry and reporting system), ISAM (an indexed sequential file
>> access method), the sort/merge facility and the editor.
>>
>
>Were the SIS and SAS applications ever finished?  Were they widely used?
>What became of them?
>
>--
>Edward "curiosity killed the cat" Berner
>
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