R:Base
computer software program
R:BASE (or RBASE) is a relational database program for the PC created by Wayne Erickson in 1981. Erickson and his brother, Ron Erickson, incorporated the company, MicroRim, Inc. to sell the database, MicroRIM, on November 13, 1981.
In June 1998, A. Razzak Memon, President & CEO of R:BASE Technologies, Inc. (a privately held company in Murrysville, Pennsylvania) acquired the R:BASE products from Abacus Software Group. Since 1998, R:BASE is available as R:BASE for Windows v6.1a, v7.1, v7.5, v7.6, Turbo V-8, v9.1, v9.5 (32/64) for Windows, R:Base X, and now R:Base X.5.
History
Founding
Created by Wayne Erickson in 1981, the original R:Base database was written on a Heathkit CP/M computer that Erickson built at home. On November 13, 1981, Erickson and his brother, Ron Erickson, incorporated the company, MicroRim, Inc. to sell the database, MicroRIM. "RIM" was an acronym for Relational Information Management, a mainframe database developed by NASA's IPAD project team, which included Erikson at Boeing Computer Services. The team and NASA colleagues received a NASA award for the project, which was used by NASA to track Space Shuttle heat shield tiles.
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