Vernay Laboratories--Tooling database
The tooling database was critical to this manufacturing company.
This design consolidated many diverse, older systems, and allowed different
types of information to be stored flexibly for different tool types.
It performed reliably for 13 years. Jim
Bailey can provide a reference for this work. This is one
of the database layout pages.
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The tool editing and reporting system comprised about 75 pages of code,
and provided flexible query capabilities not generally found in database
applications of the early '80s. It was written in DEC's Basic plus
2 language, which was only semi-structured. It lacked an "endif"
statement, for example, so that nested "if" statements had to be terminated
with a line number, as you may note in the code below. I managed
to impose as much structure as possible under the circumstances....
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