Wizard 4GL options

[Database Administrator]

Good to hear from you John!

Eugene
On Nov 2, 10:44*am, obsolete_john wrote:
> On Oct 23, 8:29*am, dawn wrote:
>
> > On Oct 23, 11:15*am, Jon Sisk wrote:
> > > On Oct 21, 8:07*pm, Tony Gravagno wrote:
>
> > > > My gosh Peter, Wizard has been dead for about 15 years.
>
> > > Actually, it will be twenty years ago next month that Ken Simms, the
> > > author of Wizard and S/BASIC, passed away.
>
> ACTUALLY, Wizard never died...
>
> There are many of us "Wizard Minions" (trained by Ken) that still have
> applications that were written with Wizard 4GL.
>
> I know Steve Lambert is still in business and I have Wizard running on
> a GA 1750 that I use all the time.
>
> Ken Simms left Pick a month or two before the first big layoff. *I
> left Pick a week before the big layoff. *Ken went to work for ITS. *I
> went to ITS. *When Steve got caught in the big layoff he came to ITS.
>
> We all worked for ITS Financial Systems in 1977-8. *That company for
> those with historical interest was a Microdata dealership whose
> principals were Gordon Selby and Jack Cory. *We wrote a package (in
> Wizard) for the loan processing / mortgage banking industry. *When
> that company defuncted -- Ken formed Automatic Programming and Jack
> Cory & I worked for Ken writing various enhancements to Wizard up to
> the time Ken died. *Wizard was licenced to Adds (called Implementor)
> and that's how GA got it. *I think it went out bundled with one of
> Pick Systems OS versions also.
>
> I am always available for Wizard support in this country or in
> neighboring planetary systems.
>
> Love to all,
> John Bohner