>>>>>Hi Garrett.
>>>>>
>>>>>Welcome aboard,
>>>>todd, bob & garrett to the rogues gallery. sorry to deprive you all of the ususal witty reparte, but am a bit preoccupied at present. bob, you look like you might be a potential candidate for the estemed subculture of dinosaurs; let me know if you wish to be considered; we dont get much respect, but then we do have fun taunting the KIDS!
>>>
>>>Hello Lucian,
>>>
>>>Thanks for the welcome. I'm sure I qualify as a dinosaur (and maybe the world's oldest xbase programmer too :-) Count me in.
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>>are you trying to usurp my title? (i would have to put up some sort of a fight just to make it look good, you understand?) i started using dbaseII on a televideo 802 in late 1982. top that, and you get the title. your chronological age is of no difference, but im 50 in spite of the rather youthful look of my photo!
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>we all know that picture is 30 years old...

an old publishers trick to impress the reading public!