We were still using a case recording system dating from the seventies well into the 21st century. IIRC it was written in COBOL. It did the job, we owned the code and had people who could maintain it and do such limited upgrades as were necessary.
Various attempts to replace it with proprietary stuff, usually solicitors office packages, had come to nowt on grounds of expense/suitability. Previous bad experiences with software support after customising such systems meant there was a veto on that as a solution.
When I first encountered it the users interrogated via dumb terminals but input was 'specialist'; we completed forms and data inputters transferred info onto system.
Later it ran on our PCs but still blocky green text on a black ground.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 16 Dec 14 at 11:12
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