Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

[James Knott]

bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not actually true - I was brought up on paper tape based operating systems, about 40 years before Linux). Bill Paper tape is better than manually entering the os by hand on a set of toggle switches and buttons------------ Are you thinking in terms of the PDP-8? I was part of the team that rebuilt the Manchester Baby (predecessor or the Mark I) for the 50th anniversary of stored program computers. For that you have to key in the whole program, not even paper tape after you've keyed in the bootstrap. I have to admit, we cheated slightly and interfaced it to a PC which forces a store image into the memory on request, thereby avoiding the long error-prone hassle. Tom Kilburn, the designer of the original Baby was most envious when he saw it. Bill Actually, many computers could boot from paper tape.  I used to work on Data General Nova & Eclipse computers and they could use the tape reader on the teletype or a "high speed" optical reader.  The oldest computer I ever worked on was older than me and was built with vacuum tubes, relays and a memory drum.  To change the programming on it, you needed a soldering iron! --