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==History==

In the mid-1960's, the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] (JPL) of the [[California Institute of Technology]] (CalTech) was using an IBMTymeshare product named RETRIEVE. For reasons lost to history, in the late 60’s Jeb Long, a new programmer at JPL, was assigned the task of writing a program which would performsupport not only the same 4 basic functions as RETRIEVE, but many advanced features plus a programming language.

By 1973 the program had evolved into a file management program called JPLDIS (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Database-management and Information-retrival System) written in [[Fortran|FORTRAN]], running on a [[UNIVAC 1108]] mainframe.