Tom,
>>Craig,
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>>Oh.. I just remembered what I forgot to tell you at lunch..
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>>My buddy Nathan called yesterday and has a client that wants him to 'tweak' a FoxBase 2.10 program.
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>Like a whole new feature set and accounting system with the ability to cook three meals a day for 1000 people. You will do this for free?
*chuckle*
He'll get paid.
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>>He asked me if I had a copy laying around so he could test the changes he was going to make...
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>I think you can use FP 2.0 for this as long as you stay with the prg stuff. I do have FoxBase 2.16 LAN version in the original package and bubble wrap. I am saving it for the low tech museum of software anomalies and curiosities.
Yah.. I probably have a copy somewhere as well. I might even have a 2.10 on an old 5 1/4" floppy as well. Maybe I should go see.. Hmm.. Just though of where it might be. I have an old metal cabinet that has paper copies of the CP/M kernel and it might be there.. <g>
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>>!!!???
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>>"No... Sorry.. I don't think I do.."
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>><g>
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>>Anyway, I reminded him that the customer would more than likely loan him a copy for his testing. I don't think there's much of a chance for long-term loss to MSFT here... <g>
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>No, at least not today - they are all in San Francisco selling .NET to the world. Today, Ash Wednesday - the beginning of Lent! What better day to start such an endeavor? In forty days we will know more about what all this means.
LOL!
That's rich.
Best,
DD
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