Might add Dbase and FoxPro to the list as well (although FoxPro is
still the database engine in a current piece of software we use at
work). I started with Rbase because Dbase was harder to learn at the
recommendation of the person that sold me my first IBM PC-1 (with two
floppy drives and additional memory), computer, monitor (amber),
software + printer = $3300. Made the right choice.
Steve J
At 10:38 PM 2/13/2012, you wrote:
Albert: Think of all the excellent products and user communities
which have disappeared over the past thirty years (Victor 9000,
MultiMate, STSC APL anyone?). To find R:Base alive and well as one
of the highest-integrity product/user-communities in three decades
is ... something. Find the word. Something else. Kudos, Razzak and
crew! I recall our first application in ... 1985? Took the US Steel
detailer's book, ginned up a parameter description of steel shapes
and take-outs; feeding them into a floppy-based NASA-developed
public domain 3-D program to produce multi-story structures,
rotatable in real-time on 8088 XTs (no 8087 co-processor required).
Why I dropped it, I cannot justify. Maybe it was a girl, or tequila;
my grey hairs shrug their collective shoulders and swear they can't
remember. Uh-Huh. Probably the tequila. I could just kick myself.
Cheers, Bruce Chitiea SafeSectors, Inc. > -------- Original Message
-------- > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Fail: Computed Column Shows all
Nulls (-0-) > From: Albert Berry <[email protected]> > Date:
Mon, February 13, 2012 6:48 pm > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L
Mailing List) > > > With something as all inclusive as R:Base, every
day is a big learning > day. I've been doing it now since the mid
1980's and still hit a dead > end from time to time, particularly
with the way R:Azzak and crew have > pushing R:Base to limits one
could never have expected. > > By the way, this list is great, is it
not? I've been on here since Harry > Bass had one. My first R:Base
was 2.11 (R:Base for DOS). Bill Downall > was out there for us all.
He's not quite as years challenged as I <GRIN> > > > > > On
13/02/2012 5:02 PM, Bruce Chitiea wrote: > > Thanks Albert. Big
learning day. > > > > Bruce Chitiea > > SafeSectors, Inc. > >
909.238.9012 cell > >
