[Info-vax] OT: EFF software patent busting & DEC CBT/CBI

[Bradford Hamilton]

In article <52cba$49c4f499$cef8af62$11467 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free>, John Smith \
(not the one @ HP\) wrote:
>
>Does anyone here remember the details of the Digital CBT/CBI courses 
>available in the early/mid 1980's?
>
>The USPTO issued a patent for CBT 
>http://w2.eff.org/patent/wanted/patent.php?p=test
>which seems to incorporate most of what I recall was already present in 
>DEC's CBT offerings. The EFF is looking for information about prior art in 
>order to fight this patent.
>
>I seem to recollect that there were CBT's available for VMS system mangement 
>and Fortran, maybe others.
>
>I'd dig through my archives to confirm some of the details but I'm laid up 
>with busted-up leg acquired during skiing  few weeks ago.

There were CBT's for Operators and end-users; I used them to train our
mainframe-oriented Operations staff in the late 1980s.  They were very useful,
for their time.

I don't have more "details"; it was long ago.