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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“I still use the Cardfile program that came with Win 3.1. Believe it or not it works fine on XP.”

That’s kind of funny. There are so many apps that don’t work well with the never ending newer versions of windows. However, I was at one of our plants in Maryland recently, talking to the line manager. My eyes keep drifting to some charts and graphs on his desk. I finally can’t take it anymore and pick the reports up. Turns out they were reports generated from a program I had written for Windows 3.1 in 1993 in Borland Turbo C, while I was an engineer at a remote plant in Nevada. I was stunned, as it was running just dandy on windows 7. It was written in the days of dot matrix printers, and the charts and graphs were crisp and perfect printed on modern color printers. I have no idea where they got the program.


23 posted on 04/06/2012 11:03:48 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage
Too funny. Technology truly has made the world a much smaller place in many ways.

You should have jacked him up for a fiver for the rights to use it.

=;^)

37 posted on 04/06/2012 11:32:36 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.)
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