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SMS Corporate Phone List June 1971Scanned by mike cassidy from push-pin filled original, which I think came from Ken Shumaker.
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SMS Hospital Newsletter - September 1975
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Original Four Phase ACTION brochure, late 1975Scanned from the original by mike cassidy.
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Corporate summer picnic announcement August 1976Way out in the middle of "God's Country", but walking distance (carrying the 1/2 full beer keg) to Big Al Hansen's house for an after party. Ask me - it's my best Big Al story. -mike cassidy
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ACTION in action - 1976Check out the rotary dial on the PBX switchboard, surrounded by Four Phase ACTION crt and keyboard. (from the 1976 Annual Report)
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Fast Eddie's other cardSome of those older than me, know the story of "one card Eddie". Well, just before he left corporate to go into sales, he gave me his other card, which I used actively for 15 years deep inside INVISION, and still take a peek now and then to make sure all the bits are still there.
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Before ADHOC there was BIRP - 1977
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TSO arrives - 1977Just a fad. It'll never replace punched cards.
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Client-server in 1977One of the best, ever, client-server architectures - about 15 years before that name was coined.
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Four Phase ACTION Release 2.2 internal memo - 7/5/1978Although designated "2.2", this was the first full release written entirely by SMS - including a core operating system with dual-layer overlay support (the largest customer* had less than 500 KB RAM), maintaining the source code with TSO and Panvalet on "The Host", a cross-assembler -and- a cross-loader to create proprietary relocatable/absolute binary code for the Four Phase minicomputer, and all surrounding JCL, Clist, and compression/decompression transmission support over the hospital's 1200-baud Bisync line used with TCAM. There was also a lot of COBOL "batch" programs written and run on the ACTION machines during "Day-end" processing at the hospital site. (*56 terminals, 27 printers, 3x67.5 MB disks) BTW, it took 2 hours to transmit a full system at 1200 baud (hospitals could pull it like any other report on TCAM). Did I mention this was in 1978? Before PCs, before the interweb.
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$7 for a baseball game?Well, at least Bonnie (future Mrs Vuk) was the ball girl.
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1978 GuideSMS Guide to Financial Management Systems and Resource Management Systems for Hospitals - selected pages
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