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I remember Prime Information.

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does anyone remember a database called "INFORM"?

Mark Waterbury <mark.s.w...@gmail.com>: May 29 04:48PM -0700 I am thinking of "INFORM" from Standard Information Systems (SIS) a time-sharing service bureau that was based in Kansas City, IIRC, in the 1970s. They were acquired by a larger company, United Computing Services (UCS), who continued to support and maintain INFORM for a number of years. They had a database named "INFORM" that ran on their time-sharing services, on CDC mainframes, and allegedly it was written in FORTRAN.   (Of course, like most time-sharing service bureaus, they were eventually overtaken by the availability of inexpensive personal computers in the 1980s, so their customer bases just dwindled away... Why continue to pay a monthly service fee when that same amount of money easily could pay a monthly payment on a loan or lease where a company could own their very own personal computer system within just a few years of payments.)   From my dim memories of INFORM, it bore a very strong resemblance to many of the PICK "mult-value" systems we are familiar with, especially the English-like user language.   I think I saw a version of INFORM some years later, that had been converted into a PC based Windows application, but I cannot recall or find anything about it now, and all traces of "INFORM" (and SIS and UCS) seem to have vanished from the interweb. :-/   If anyone has any memories or knowledge of that database, I am curious to learn whether it was in fact a PICK derivative, or only lossely "cloned" based on some users experiences with some of the early PICK databases such as TRW's GIRLS, GIM-1, GIM-II or ITDS.   Thanks for any recollections anyone may have.

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[Will Johnson]

The query and report tool for Prime INFORMATION was called INFORM

Very bad name and marketing imho, since if you tried to do a "search" in the documents for INFORM you would get five thousand false hits.

DON'T name a crucial part of your system a short version of the name of the SYSTEM!!!!

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On 5/31/22, 'Will Johnson' via Pick and MultiValue Databases

<mvd...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> The query and report tool for Prime INFORMATION was called INFORM
> Very bad name and marketing imho, since if you tried to do a "search" in
> the documents for INFORM you would get five thousand false hits.
>
> DON'T name a crucial part of your system a short version of the name of the
>
> SYSTEM!!!!
>
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> On Monday, May 30, 2022 at 1:09:32 PM UTC-7 bcam wrote:
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>> I remember Prime Information.
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[Will Johnson]

No Gene it was called INFORM.

If you like I can send you the PDF manual