http://www.pcjs.org/modules/shared/templates/pdf.html?url=/pubs/pc/magazines/pctj/PCTJ-1987-04/pages/PCTJ-1987-04%2054.pdf&page=54&total=218PC Tech Journal reviewed FoxBASE, Clipper, and Quicksilver in Spring 1987. THIS IS HISTORY.
I still clearly remember the day I read this article. I was eating breakfast at a hotel in Parris Island, South Carolina, the day my brother was graduating from Marine Boot Camp. I sat there for over an hour, eating bacon and eggs and reading this article.
I was 22 years old and had just pocketed about $1,500 for doing a dBase app for EDS. I was a liberal arts major and self-taught developer and wanted to work in this industry so badly I would have walked miles through a desert for it.
Previously as a teen I always looked at adults who loved their careers as total whackos - but then I discovered what lit them up. The day I read this article (again and again and again) was my flash point.
Later in 1987 Borland released Turbo-C. Then Sequitur Software released a CodeBase library that allowed C developers to maintain dBase tables. Then I landed my first job and was mentored by Fox author Mike Antonovich. A perfect storm.
And then the boys from Perrysburg released the most fantastic 1.0 product of all time - FoxPro 1 in the fall of 1989. And then a year later I won an award from USDA for some Fox apps I wrote.
I was damn fortunate - I came into the industry at the perfect time.
Always fun to take a stroll down memory lane.
