[AccessD] The Commodore 64 makes a comeback. Sort of...

[RockySmolin at bchacc.com]

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Subject: RE: [AccessD] The Commodore 64 makes a comeback. Sort of...
From: <RockySmolin at bchacc.com>
Date: Thu, July 23, 2015 8:42 am
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>

The PC changed my business.  Before that we had a machine developed by a
local house that had tow 8 inch and two 5 1/4 inch floppies and software
to create disks and support our products in any number (a big number) of
proprietary formats. We were distributing our own project management
system at the time and the PC changed all that by standardizing the
formats.


r


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 Subject: Re: [AccessD] The Commodore 64 makes a comeback. Sort of...
 From: Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>
 Date: Thu, July 23, 2015 8:22 am
 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
 <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
 
 Hi Rocky
 
 Well, I didn't - and didn't even miss one. 
 
 It may have been because I worked with the AVL Eagle computer (CB/M
based) from 1978 and with the IBM PC from its launch. With the AVL Eagle
as a serious tool of that time, and the respectful - not to say
frightening - IBM branding of the PC, everything else seemed like toys.
And with the Macintosh in 1984 the scene was set.
 
 Also, the IBM PC was a real pro design for heavy use, the Macintosh was
neat in its own way and represented good engineering while Commodore 64,
Amstrad, and Atari were of ugly design and seemed manufactured the
cheapest way possible.
 
 Perhaps I'm just dull and boring. The only game I found really
fascinating is Tetris from the "Microsoft Entertainment Pack for
Windows." (notice the dot). Just checked: I still have the box. 
 
 /gustav
 
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 http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=278219&cid=nl.dn14.20150723
 
 
 I'll bet most of us had one of these.
 
 r 
 
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