[AccessD] A2K: This should be easy

Eagle computer.  Very sad story that.  The day they went public one of the
guys who started it and had just become a multi-millionaire left the
celebration in his new Jag lost control killed himself.  The company never
recovered.

Rocky

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Arthur Fuller" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: [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.
>
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