From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e045a5e739e2c80 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.235.4 with SMTP id ui4mr3756524pbc.3.1331170958171; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:42:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: h9ni67pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:42:31 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <15362655.665.1330003793505.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbox6> <13615928.2120.1330273323697.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjd19> <87d38ohf9g.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1331170957 16709 69.95.181.76 (8 Mar 2012 01:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:42:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Date: 2012-03-07T19:42:31-06:00 List-Id: "Simon Clubley" wrote in message news:jj7l54$m14$1@dont-email.me... ... > I knew about Ada before that, but didn't know about any low cost compilers > until I saw the Grey Matter product lists. I remember the advertising > material been printed on coloured (maybe green) paper detailing the > product. > > I cannot remember if the Janus/Ada advertising material originated from > Grey Matter or if Randy's company originally created it and it was > re-distributed by Grey Matter. Possibly both. We used green colored brochures back in the 1980s for a while, but I think we'd gotten rid of them in favor of a brighter design by 1993. But I honestly only remember the "Ada 94" (which had to be reprinted as "Ada 95") brochures, the last ones we had printed in quanity. By 1997, we did everything on the web. (I think I have collection of those old brochures somewhere, but I no longer remember where... ;-) Randy.