[AccessD] A2K: This should be easy

Hi Arthur

> 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.

Yes! The first computer I worked with was the AVL Eagle introduced at
the Photokina world fair in 1978. Its main purpose was controlling
multi-image (slide) shows and as the first machine for this equipped
with a monitor it was a true sensation.

Here's a picture (not me!) I found (top right):

http://www.avextravaganzas.com/Rental_Price_List/Computers/computers.html

It's the computer at the far left with the 8" monitor on top hardly
visible. 
The text claims 256K of ram but actually it came with 64K and room for
64K expansion boards of a size like the front of the computer.
Proprietary preformatted "data diskettes" were sold at a horrible
price until our British partner found out how to format empty
diskettes on a standard CP/M computer.
Several other programs were available for the machine like Wordstar (if
I recall correctly).

I never did any general purpose programming on this machine though -
my job was completely different in those days ... 

/gustav


> 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+).


>>> > 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.