I remember the good old days too. How about? Having to change calls, as I did when I moved across the Mississippi River from Iowa to Illinois when graduating from Iowa State in 1970?
Constantly being hated by neighbors who had TVs with 21 MHz IFs? Constantly being hated by neighbors when our equipment wasn't as clean as we were brainwashed into thinking it was? A Drake C-Line and SB-220 and antenna switch that required 14 knobs or switches to be turned when going from 20M USB to 40M LSB in a contest? Paper logging and contest dupe sheets (in my 2700 QSOs in a 10M contest in 1978, I think, and I wasn't even in the top ten)? I also loved DOS-based DXbase, but comparing it to the latest Windows version is like comparing one of our horses to a Mazda RX-8 (an object of my lust). Jim N7US (who was a legend in his own mind) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Searle W2NRA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] DXBase 3.1 Hi Andy, Yea, I know what you mean. And before DXBase the software I used was ARRL Log copywrite 1977 and I was so disappointed when they went to ARRL Log copywrite 1988. The screen, ah, PAGE looked so cluttered with separate fields, ah, COLUMNS for 'Date' and 'Time'. And I missed the separate fields, ah, COLUMNS for 'Station Called' and 'Called By'. Searching for QSOs was very slow on both versions of this software; moving my ruler down the screens, ah, PAGES was very slow. Oh the tedium of paper log software. And the I/O devices, ah, pens and pencils, were rather slow and sometimes difficult to read DXBase 3.1 was way ahead of either of these. Art W2NRA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew J. O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:55 AM Subject: [DXBase] DXBase 3.1 > I don't mean to be unkind to all the efforts over the years....I was > wondering if anyone would agree with me that the best version of DXbase was > 3.1 ? Maybe it was because of the newness of PC logging but I still fondly > recall the thrill of first operating with 3.1 and I still feel the display > is better than any logging program today (including current DXB). > > Andy K3UK _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
