Got the t-shirt, too!
Posted on 12/07/2009 11:03:42 PM PST by Swordmaker
All things in time.
Snob.
But if I stay here with you, then I will lead them to their doom. Eventually, all things merge into one.
dBASE II on a Kaypro 40 lbs portable, running C/PM.
Got the t-shirt, too!
On a Trash 80 Oh so many years ago...
lol
He ... chose the iPhone since Apple's customers had already proven they're like Lemmings with their adolescent willingness to pay for all kinds of over priced useless crap that 98% of the people don't want and can't use.
I *once* considered buying an Apple computer until it came out that they were charging a 100% markup on its cost. Well I may have born at night. But not last night. Screw them Steve Jobs, fricken pot head.
I programmed in Dbase 2 in the early 80's, God, a lifetime ago.
I wrote a quite a few new commands for it, that appeared in Dbase3, that Wayne Radcliffe(sic) bought for $200.00 a pop.
A trivia quote, from a conversation I had with Wayne in 1984:
Fedupjohn: "Wayne, why can I only open 17 files at one time?...
Wayne Radcliffe: "I wrote Dbase to handicap football games, and that all that I needed."
A very nice man.
I bet there aren’t many Freepers who actually used Visicalc. But I did. It was, at the time, simply amazing. A revolution in computing.
Plain old word processing was a revolution in the sense of being very very useful to people who need to write a lot
We take word processing for granted these days and have done so for years
Circa 1983 I visited some relatives who were college professors and they had a Stanford connection.
Stanford offered every prof an Apple computer either free or very discounted
They were beyond thrilled to be able to write and type and be able to cut and paste and rearrange pages
Obviously none of this existed prior to the personal computer
Dude... Decaf.
Blah...
Hey!
Hey Ho the Derry-O
How are things :)
...as well as can be expected given that puke in the white house dictating cap and trade via the EPA.
Krauthammer got it right and called it cap without the trade
Well thanks to all the morons who stayed home last election cycle :(
Invented VisiCalc —> smart.
Consciously declined to get a patent —> stupid.
Stompie & Winnie was our topic last time. You will be overjoyed to learn that Clint Eastwood’s movies ...each one is more liberal than the last.
Just in time for Christmas he has a Mandela pic coming out with Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. So clear your busy holiday schedule,, make time to see it. I wonder if Winnie is in it. Mandela was disgusted with that P-I-G and divorced her
I didn’t see that Gran..tur..something whatever flik...A good flik would be about the Rhodesian Troopies :)
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