Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:31:32 +0000
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From: "Schmid, Dennis (CDC/OSELS/SEPDPO) (CTR)" <wfu4@CDC.GOV>
Subject: Re: SAS Before SAS Institute
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Mark, Ron, et al,
I'm still holding onto several training manuals, an old and yellowed Proc Tabulate manual as well as a few other choice tidbits. Last year I dumped the IBM manuals from my z/OS Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning career as the probability of ever working in that field again continues to converge on ZERO! I did keep my Merrill MXG guides though.
Dennis
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From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Miller
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:23 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: SAS Before SAS Institute
Ron,
Not sure if you were joking or not
SLUG was SAS Library Users Guide -- documented contributed programs My last copy was dogeared and heavily annotated when I decided it was useful only as a memento of the good old days.
It is interesting to hear about all of those old manuals.
For years, I jealously guarded my 20 linear feet of manuals and SUGI Proceedings even though there were many duplicates and more than a few still in shrink-wrap.
A few years back I started trying to give them away and was shocked that it was difficult to do.
Finally in Fall 2010 in preparing to move across the country (NY to OR) I was heartsick to be compelled to contribute 10 "BankersBox" full of SAS manuals to the local recycling paper shredding facility.
I believe I kept two boxes of manuals, but I'm not sure since they're all stacked up with book boxes in my garage.
... Mark Miller
On 3/20/2012 12:08 PM, Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) wrote:
> SAS Lead Users Group (SLUG) ?
>
> I thought that was the worst acronym joke I had ever seen but then I
> work for YourTaxDollars@Work so maybe I ought knot complain.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu
>> [mailto:owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu]
>> On Behalf Of F J Kelley
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 7:16 PM
>> To: sas-l@listserv.uga.edu
>> Subject: RE: [SAS-L] SAS Before SAS Institute
>>
>> your memory serves you well, Nat. Red, white and blue (the Bicentennial?).
>> And yes, TS222 did have a good deal of useful stuff in it. Of
>> course, there was the beloved SLUG.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: SAS(r) Discussion [SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Nat
>> Wooding [nathani@VERIZON.NET]
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:54 PM
>> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [SAS-L] SAS Before SAS Institute
>>
>> Speaking of the old brown TS manuals, as I recall, there are a few
>> bits and pieces that are only documented in TS 222 which, if my
>> memory hasn't failed, described what was new in V6.
>>
>> The SAS 76 manual had a blue cover and red and white lettering.
>>
>> Nat
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> John Burton
>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:21 PM
>> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: SAS Before SAS Institute
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> I thought the subscriptions were tailored according to the SAS
>> products onsite. I remember the multitudes of brown stiff paper
>> cover technical supplements. I think I have a few of those in a box somewhere.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM, F J Kelley<jkelley@uga.edu> wrote:
>>> In those years, it was great. Of course we ended up with manuals
>>> for products and operating systems we did not have. And then there
>>> were the printed TS manuals. I think we stopped it somewhere in V6
>>
>>
>> --
>> "be seeing you",
>> Ray Burton
>> Richmond VA
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