I worked with that Televideo. But it was under M/PM (TurboDOS) and running DataFlex. And, I think, Multiplan was not originally an MS product, was it?


>Hi Evan et al,
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>I may be unique in this field. I went back to finish my college after about 10 years in the computer (mainframe) field and 6 years in the US Army Signal Corps.
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>My introduction to pc's was the 802H Televideo. 64k of ram, 10 meg hard drive,
>dBaseII, WordStar and MS MultiPlan. That's right 64K! Which was pretty good considering the 1401 mainframe I had written autocoder for had 8K. Yes K and no hard drive - cards and tape.
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>I started on a degree in accounting, switched to Computer Science and back to accounting/business/law.
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>I got frustrated sitting in back of the room shaking my head to let the instructor know wether he/she was right or wrong. I'd been in the business longer than he/she could spell it. Also every application I had work on at the time was automating some accounting function - AR/AP/Inv/Pay/etc.
>I figured that it was to my and my clients benefit if I understood what is was that I was trying to automate. So I have a AS in Accounting and a BS in Business Mgt/Finance. It has served me very well. My occupation is to develope custom software to automate a particular function, usually accounting related. My main tool is VFP. But I should be able to use what ever tool is appropriate to do the job - and the job is developing/automating accounting/tracking systems.
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>I have run many training courses for several companies - including IBM. Not one of my students ever had a degree in CS or even computer courses. Of course that was a long time ago before C/S and Information Systems were offered by must colleges/universities.
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>Regards
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>Paige
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>Mr. Paige L. Chandler
>P. Chandler Enterprises