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Remembering the old times
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Visual FoxPro
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>>>>Just can believe I've started with this :)
>>>>
>>>>http://www.masswerk.at/google60/
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>>>My first experience with computers was in 1959, when I was five years old. I played with a lot of those punch cards, but they didn't have the words Google written on them, instead it was IBM.
>>>
>>>The first hard drive they got where my father worked, was 10MB, at the size of a normal household washing machine.
>>
>>If that was an IBM machine, it was the 1405 RAMAC (Random Access Computer) the first commercially used random access machine. It looked like a juke box.. the arm moved from track to track while you watched it.
>
>You, that sounds like it.

That machine was designed by the late, great Raymond Loewy- the Steve Jobs of his day.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.
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