>If it wasn't for dBass III, I would never had landed my first job doing Foxpro. When I lived in NYC in 1985, I loaded a copy of dBase on my Tandy 1000 and proceeded to have no idea what "." on the screen was for. I took a course in Manhattan, and finally learned that I needed to type commands at the dot prompt. One of the the first things I learned to do was browse. I was hooked from that moment on.

Same for me. First ever rel db s/w I'd encountered, after all the theory I'd learnt during my degree. Used it for a simulator parts inventory. Later job in another company, they decided to develop a system in Clipper, and I did a smidgen of coding. Later went for a job as a trainer in Windows products (Word, Excel etc.) and the boss noted from my CV that I'd used these s/w, and asked me if I'd care to look at the bugs in their system, written in FPD 2.6. Never looked back since!