Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Mon Mar 17 19:44:00 CST 2003
I started with CP/M and a PC someone else put together that booted from and loaded programs from a cassette tape recorder. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I got a new NorthStar PC with a single floppy drive and 64K of RAM back in 1976. I switched to MS-DOS when it was first released and worked with the first versions of dBase. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Stuart McLachlan [mailto:stuart at lexacorp.com.pg] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:55 PM To: Arthur Fuller; accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: This should be easy I did my early DB development on CC/PM (Concurrent CPM) in Dataflex (again 20 years ago <g>). Two ICL PCs networked and you could hotkey between 4 different applications (and a whole 64K available to each) on each PC. On 17 Mar 2003 at 8:57, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Anyone in this list besides me old enough to remember CP/M? Those were > the days! Once I did a big app on a computer system called Molecular, > that had a multi-user version of CP/M and 10MB hard disks! Bitchin > system. > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock > Sent: March 17, 2003 8:15 AM > To: Stuart McLachlan > Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2K: This should be easy > > > Hi Stuart > > Oh, I'm old enough to know about Date and Time and DOS - and drivers > for add-on battery clocks for XT machines. > > What I didn't know was that these (Date and Time) were equivalent to > those of VBA; I've always regarded these as functions to only read the > settings of DOS (or WinNT+). > > /gustav > > > >> > Also, another little known fact about the Date, Time > >> > and Now functions. They work both ways. If you use this line of > >> > code: > >> > >> > Date=Date()+1 > >> > >> > You've just set your systems date to tomorrow! <grin> > >> > >> That is scary! I didn't know that. > >> Why do you know such weird things? > > > Because we've been using various BASICs for many years (in my case > > over 20) and once upon a time in DOS , we regularly used DATE and > > TIME to adjust the system clock. > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Stuart McLachlan Lexacorp Ltd Application Development, IT Consultancy http://www.lexacorp.com.pg _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com