On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2010, at 14:31 , steve harley wrote:
>
>> On 2010-06-02 14:16 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
>>>
>>> I used to be a
>>> Filemaker guru on the Apple IIgs, FileMaker Pro on the Mac IIfx, so I'm
>>> not unaware of database use.
>>
>> time-warp alert -- i'm a FileMaker "lifer" since Claris bought it
>> (FileMaker II, 1988), and i'm sure the original FileMaker release was
>> Macintosh only
>
>
> You could be and probably are correct. I had a niggling feeling I used it in
> color on my IIgs, but my brain is so swiss cheesy that I could be thinking
> yogurt.
>
>
> If it doesn’t excite you,
> This thing that you see,
> Why in the world,
> Would it excite me?
> —Jay Maisel
>
> Joseph McAllister
> [email protected]

Filemaker originated as Nutshell for MS-DOS. It got a GUI and moved to
the Mac as Filemaker, then came back to the PC as a Windows app. Was
never on the // platform at all.

-- 
M. Adam Maas
http://www.mawz.ca
Explorations of the City Around Us.

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