R:Base

Article summary

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.

Key claims

1. release date: 1983 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 1983 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 1984 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the release date is "1983". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the release date is "1983". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the release date is "1984". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
6. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342857656