>>>re Esber = couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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>>>Actually, Esber was a revolutionary....until someone came along and did one better than A-T.
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>>>Esber and A-T's reaction was so bad that, were I a novelist writing about a fictional company, I'd never use him as a character...it would seem like too much of a caricature.
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>>>dBase IV 1.0 was the 2nd worst product ever released in the history of PC software (Clipper 5.0 being #1, was an utter piece of crap, after almost 2 years of total hype). And like Clipper, what made things worse for A-T was the amount of time to issue a full fix/update. Fox left both in the dust by being able to produce stuff that "worked right the first time". I've always felt the two best product releases (for their time) were FoxPro 1.0 in 1989 and Turbo C 1.0 in 1987. Those products were jewels, absolute jewels that we may never see again.
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>>For me it was Turbo Pascal in 1983. We wrote tons of programs for the Navy with that product.
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>Truly a revolutionary product. And with a price of $49, a lot of people were willing to give it a try.

I think I still have a copy of turbo basic for the PC somewhere in the house.