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F.O.A.D.

On 2/13/14, 12:26 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:33:16 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

What were you doing computer-wise in the mid-1980s?

Writing an inventory system for our store in dBase, among other
things.
dBase was actually the application that made my computer more than a
fancy typewriter.
I played around with BASIC and ASSEMBLER a little but dBase is what
made my PC productive.
I got an early release of dBase III in the early 80s through IBM but I
didn't really use it much until the fixes made it stable.
The programming language in dBase made it possible to write a total
system but sometime you still needed a DOS call to get to some
hardware (like my bar code printer)

I don't remember why, but I ended up using R-Base.

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