Hey,
For all you out there that run or work in Maker Spaces, I just found out that this exists:
https://isam2017.hemi-makers.org/program/
Also, @dan and @bailey I thought it would be a good idea for you to attend/demo this in the future. Epilog laser is going to be there (cue the music-DUN DUN DUUUN).
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They have a full time sales team to go to events and sell machines… they’re nice folks; I’ve enjoyed talking to them.
We just have Bailey. 
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And it’s Cleveland. 
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“Just?” You have a powerhouse!
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wow - when I read ISAM, I thought, "ISAM (indexed-sequential access method) " (as opposed to a Relational DB which uses sql).
I’d been an “Enterprise Application” web developer for 7 years when I started my current job 12 yrs ago. They had/have a wonderful client-server product that they needed me to put online for them, and they were using an ISAM db. I had no idea what one was, and when they told me that I needed to make a db call (over the network) every time I needed to get info from a different table (rather than doing joins in the db itself) I told them that at any other job I’d be fired for such incompetence. It was a learning experience.
Glad to see the world has evolved to a point where ISAM refers to Maker Spaces rather than antiquated dbs, and no one (other than us old timers) bats an eye.
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Man do industry specific acronyms throw us for a loop. Especially when they are unrelated (construction versus automotive versus technology versus military versus …).
Makes my head want to explode 
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I believe the technical acronym for that is MMHWTE 
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Is North Olmsted part of Cleveland? ️
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Beat me to it! For a one person team @bailey is kicking butt! I know @dan didn’t mean it like that, but someone has to give him crap right? 
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Pretty funny. My first IT job was programming for an ISAM (&VSAM) based application. We take relational DB technology for granted now. But they didn’t spring fully formed from the brains of the early developers - it was a progression of capability. Just easy now to wonder that anything less was ever state-of-the-art
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I always thought ISAM was an adjunct standard to COBOL?
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Just one more file handler ️ I did use COBOL (& Fortan & RPG & BAL) on the programming side. In addition to ISAM and VSAM we used some variant Btrieve datastores.
And Grace Hopper was old when I started ️ (before the old guy jokes start)
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Right near the airport and GRC. Close enough 
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