13 Oct
2019
13 Oct
'19
2:35 p.m.
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.
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On Oct 13, 2019, at 13:30, Jason T via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 1:47 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
There's a DIBOL self-instruction book on
bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/dibol/DEC-08-WDRA-D_DIBOL_Programming_A_S…
A few years ago I scanned a bunch of application manuals from a
company called MCBA. Most of the apps are written in (or for) DEC
DIBOL:
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing%2FMCBA
Somewhere I've got piles of 9-tracks tapes that most likely contain
the software. Maybe they'll be recovered some time before my
infirmity.
j