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Does anyone recall an IBM package for DOS called FASTER. I think the name was something like "Filing and storage technique for easy retrieval?" I think it was a bunch of macros to build and access a database, and was probably a Type-III program. No specific reason for this request, but somehow this floated into my mind, and I can't seem to Google it.

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Yes, I remember it well and it was our first experience with online transactions.? This is a statement from my webpage at

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Six model??were leased in 1972 and I designed an on-line student registration system using FASTER (an on-line transaction system that predated?) that is still in use today, under the covers, in the??system whereby students can register via telephone or on the web. For the first on-line registration that fall, all six terminals were setup in the Student Union.? It took 3 days to register 5897 students.????of 1975 registration.

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We wrote many, many transactions using FASTER.? We were using the same macros over and over again so I wrote a frontend macro called GENFASTER that contained the most commonly used FASTER macros so that the programmers did not have to know how to code the macros.? They just “called” the needed functions in the GENFASTER macro.

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When we eventually had enough horsepower CICS-DOS/Entry was installed.? Fortunately I was able to rewrite my GENFASTER to run in CICS and virtually every transaction developed for FASTER now ran in CICS with little or no modification.

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When I look back at all of the innovations that we created in the 1970s I am still amazed.

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/Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 52 years??????

mailto:RockFox@...?? ?

?????????????????"Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock"

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Iron Spring Software
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2022 4:37 PM
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Subject: [H390-DOSVS] FASTER

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Does anyone recall an IBM package for DOS called FASTER. I think the name was something like "Filing and storage technique for easy retrieval?" I think it was a bunch of macros to build and access a database, and was probably a Type-III program. No specific reason for this request, but somehow this floated into my mind, and I can't seem to Google it.

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Thank you!

On 5/10/22 11:55, Fran Hensler wrote:

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Yes, I remember it well and it was our first experience with online transactions.? This is a statement from my webpage at

?

Six model??were leased in 1972 and I designed an on-line student registration system using FASTER (an on-line transaction system that predated?) that is still in use today, under the covers, in the??system whereby students can register via telephone or on the web. For the first on-line registration that fall, all six terminals were setup in the Student Union.? It took 3 days to register 5897 students.????of 1975 registration.

?

We wrote many, many transactions using FASTER.? We were using the same macros over and over again so I wrote a frontend macro called GENFASTER that contained the most commonly used FASTER macros so that the programmers did not have to know how to code the macros.? They just “called” the needed functions in the GENFASTER macro.

?

When we eventually had enough horsepower CICS-DOS/Entry was installed.? Fortunately I was able to rewrite my GENFASTER to run in CICS and virtually every transaction developed for FASTER now ran in CICS with little or no modification.

?

When I look back at all of the innovations that we created in the 1970s I am still amazed.

?

?

/Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 52 years??????

mailto:RockFox@...?? ?

?????????????????"Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock"

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Iron Spring Software
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2022 4:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H390-DOSVS] FASTER

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Does anyone recall an IBM package for DOS called FASTER. I think the name was something like "Filing and storage technique for easy retrieval?" I think it was a bunch of macros to build and access a database, and was probably a Type-III program. No specific reason for this request, but somehow this floated into my mind, and I can't seem to Google it.

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