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SAS 1982

BLockwood05 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:26:50 GMT

I hope this is the right spot for this question.

I am looking to cite the SAS program that my advisor used back in 1982 for a thesis. He said it was on an old punch card system, but does not remember what "version" he used nor was it mentioned in his text.

What I am wondering is, was there even a version number for SAS back in 1982, and if so, what it would be?

Thanks in advance!

Re: SAS 1982

Reeza — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:31:53 GMT

Interesting question...82 is not in the list:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2013/08/02/how-old-is-your-version-of-sas-release-dates-for-sas-software.html

😄

You can also try searching LexJansen.com to see if he has any papers that may indicate the version?

Re: SAS 1982

MargaretC — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:34:37 GMT

The version number is probably 79.6. Version 8.2 of SAS did not come out until 1984.

Margaret

Re: SAS 1982

art297 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:50:53 GMT

Ask your advisor if he/she recalls if the version of SAS included the ability to create macros had proc append? If so, it was likely SAS 82. Otherwise, I agree, it probably was SAS 79

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

My first version was SAS 72

Re: SAS 1982

Tom — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:59:08 GMT

@MargaretC wrote:
The version number is probably 79.6. Version 8.2 of SAS did not come out until 1984.

Margaret

Did you mean version 82? The earlier versions were done by year.

I seem to remember there was 83 version.

Then they switched to major/minor release numbers. There were version in the 5s (5.18?) The 6xx versions started when they switched to C compilers and included the first PC-SAS version.

Re: SAS 1982

BLockwood05 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:27:17 GMT

Wow, thanks for the thoughts!

He did not do any work with proc append from what he remembers (only proc discrim). So it looks like SAS 79 is my go to, thanks everyone!

Re: SAS 1982

art297 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:37:30 GMT

PROC DISCRIM, as shown in this paper (chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.sascommunity.org/sugi/SUGI80/Sugi-80-84%20Frazier.pdf ), was available in SAS79

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: SAS 1982

MargaretC — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:09:37 GMT

Here you go...

76

MVS

Jul-76

79.5

MVS

13-Apr-81

79.6

CMS

82.4

MVS

Jan-83

82.4

CMS

Feb-84