Andrew David Joseph Hall

PC Projects for the International Division of RBS

My work with my Victor 9000 - see sidebar - brought me to the attention of the Systems Development Department of the RBS and I was recruited into the team servicing the International Division in 1986.

My role was to identify areas of the Bank who could get useful work from a PC, put forward a cost benefit analysis and then to work with the users to develop systems jointly.

I taught users to use the programs and assisted in the development of systems by the users, teaching them systems analysis and design concepts.

I developed a starter kit in the Smart System which provided utility functions and and a skeleton menuing system which allowed users to complete developments more quickly.

Problems addressed included:

A Trade Finance Exposures System.
A Shipping Exposures System.
A Contribution Analysis System for Documentary Credits.
A Subsidised Mortgage Accounting System.
A System to Collect and Collate Customer Risk Exposures for Central Credit Control.

1982 - I discover computer programming!

ACT Sirius PC In 1982 I bought a Victor 9000 mini-computer with two floppy drives and 128KB of RAM and started to program in Basic.

I produced an accounting system to handle my brother's accounts.

Then I learned UCSD Pascal and produced a system that allowed me to keep track of marketing activities at my branch of the Bank.

It kept track of the marketing materials that I had sent out and when loans were due to be repaid: so I could persuade people to borrow more money from the Bank.