>>> YIKES!!! Guess I'm a candidate too. First xBase application was on dBase
>>II
>>> on a dual floppy CP/M machine. And I'm not that old....at least I think
>>so
>>> <grin>.
>>
>>I thought I was the only one left. I have my Heathkit z89 (8080) 4mhz
>>machine with CPM, wordstar, datastar, dBase II, 2 90K SS drives, and a
>>whopping 32k ram. Kind of hard to believe how far we've come in 15 years.
>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.
ah, the truth will out. this thread is greatly populated with the ancients hiding their wisdom from the ambious youth who think that 'methords' are something new and wonderful!
Lucien T. Elliott Programmer/Analyst
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