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How many non-oldtime Xbasers out there?
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Visual FoxPro
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>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> What do you think about this,
>>> My first application was in Turbo Pascal 1.0 !!, it worked from
>>> just one floppy, my whole life was in that floppy, that is,
>>> the pascal compiler,the editor,the libraries,the operating system,
>>> the application and also the data, and it was a 360k floppy, I used a
>>> beautiful texas instruments, not IBM compatible, with a huge 540k of ram
>>> working at 4mhz.
>>
>>Oooops, sounds like something really close to me... And can you even
>>remember at times with a tape recorder instead of floppies? My first
>>application was written in Basic in ROM module on PMD-85 non IBM
>>compatible, with hughe 64K of RAM and at 4MHz!!!! No flopies, no
>>monitor, just tape recorder and TV screen... I was so happy when they
>>turned off power and I didn't save my three hours work....
>>--
>Hi Dezider,
>Thanks for made me laugh so loud this morning..., that helped me
>to start my day in a good mood.
>Yes I remember a friend that had a TRS-80 from Radio Shack, and guess
>what ?, every time that he tried to save his programs in a brand name
>tape like 'Maxell','Sony' or any other one, it didn't work, he allways
>had to use cheap tapes for that purpose.

i remember having to use radio shack tapes or it just wouldn't work. everything is proprietary, eh?
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