On 10/13/19 5:35 PM, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
> In 1981-1987 i worked for a company that used the MCBA system subroutines to 
> develop a system to do trust plan administration for labor unions. Mostly it 
> was remote data entry by the unions themselves over leased lines using black 
> box modems. The MCBA routines were pretty clever and solid. The screen 
> routines used vt100 escape sequences to make "fill in" fields which then 
> could be made to resemble a form.
> It ran on pdp 11/70. In 1982 we converted it to run on  a VAX 780. Hardest 
> part was converting from (i think) DMS 11 ( i think that was what the file 
> system was called) to RMS.
> 

DMS-11 was Univac's CODASYL Database system running on the
1100.  I believe it still exists today running on the 2200
from Unisys.

bill

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