On 17/03/13 16:27, Jason McBrien wrote:
Anyone know what minis ran library management software
back then? I know
the university I went to was all Amdhal with 5250 terminals, but the local
libraries obviously used something smaller.
In the early 90s, Leeds City Council did something similar - the
libraries were equipped with terminals (mostly Data General beige boxes)
which ran a fairly sluggish menu-driven library catalogue. All the usual
stuff - search by author, keyword, Dewey Decimal, ISBN...
I do recall the software crashing out once - it dropped out to a shell
prompt. As I recall, the prompt character was an asterisk...
Later on they introduced a web based system using Talis PRISM, but that
may or may not have been the same as the old terminal based system. The
two were running in tandem for a few months.
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