Putting the "Guide" in Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|November 15, 2010

Some of you will remember that in the very early versions of SAS Enterprise Guide, we introduced a unique approach to helping you to learn SAS: an animated “agent” who could suggest your next steps within your project. We furloughed the agent (who appeared usually as a wizard, genie, or [...]

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Goodbye, floppy disks

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 26, 2010

I’ve just read that Sony plans to discontinue the manufacture of 3.5-inch floppy disks. [Update: a more complete tribute to the floppy disk is over on Geek News Central.] The announcement made me nostalgic for the days when we shipped The SAS System on floppies. I don’t think we’ve done [...]

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The original tweeter

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|March 5, 2009

Before it was considered cool to tweet information to the world, SAS users who were hungry for inside information came to rely on a Little Birdie — as in “a Little Birdie told me…” sasCommunity.org has a nice history of the Little Birdie. The article mentions the “Jurassic period”; does [...]

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The 4-1-1 on Windows 3.11

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|November 6, 2008

Have you ever glanced through the obituaries and felt stunned to recognize an old friend? That’s how it felt when I saw this announcement about Windows 3.11. One of my first assignments when I joined SAS in 1993 was to write Changes and Enhancements to the SAS System Release 6.10: [...]

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