[AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?

Stuart Sanders stuart at pacific.net.hk
Thu Mar 4 11:01:02 CST 2004


I still have a copy of the temporary accessD emails when we briefly
moved to eGroups when the old server wnet down and we werent sure if the
plug had been pulled.  June 2000 the eGroups was started.  Still exists
on Yahoo Groups.

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> William Hindman
> Sent: Friday, 5 March 2004 12:28 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
> 
> 
> ...AccessD was alive and well long before 2001 :)
> 
> William Hindman "My idea of an agreeable person is a person 
> who agrees with
> me." Disraeli
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:51 AM
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
> 
> 
> > I don't blame you, after the run of luck you've had!
> >
> > I'm leery every time I do a presentation. I don't mind 
> speaking in front
> of
> > people but it seems something always goes wrong - no matter 
> how prepared I
> > am. I've done presentations for conferences where the coordinator
> guaranteed
> > the equipment was what I asked for and when I show up they 
> have projectors
> > that don't handle 1024x768 which is the only res. at which 
> my laptop's
> video
> > looks good (640 cuts the text lines up). I had another 
> conference where I
> > was setup 30 minutes early, everything worked fine, unplug 
> my laptop and
> the
> > first presenter plugs his in, he goes on and finishes, I 
> plug my laptop
> into
> > the projector and POOF my laptop's screen goes out. It took about 20
> minutes
> > to get it all rearranged so that my partner could run the 
> presentation
> from
> > the projected image rather than the laptop, while I talked 
> about it. (we
> > were showing a new app. live of course.) Luckily there was a third
> presenter
> > that went on in our time slot and 500 people weren't just 
> sitting there
> > getting irritated. Took a month to get the screen replaced too :o(
> >
> > John
> >
> > BTW AccessD as we know it was formed in 2001 so I guess I 
> have it narrowed
> > down enough now :o)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of
> > DWUTKA at marlow.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:47 AM
> > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
> >
> >
> > I actually gave a presentation on the 'indexing' 
> capabilities I built for
> > the archives last month.  After my track record with major 
> changes/updates
> > to the archives, I was just a little leary to give that 
> presentation....go
> > figure!
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of 
> John Bartow
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:24 AM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
> >
> >
> > Drew,
> > Yes, it is an interesting timeline, I thought of a few of 
> those things
> too!
> > :o)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of
> > DWUTKA at marlow.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:47 AM
> > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
> >
> >
> > Hmmmm, let's work backwards.  I know that the archives 
> stopping archiving
> > this past August/September (2003), because that's when I 
> separated from
> > Tammy.  I know the archives started using the 'Memo Field 
> Indexing' in
> April
> > of 2003, because that is when my apartment caught fire.  I 
> know I moved
> the
> > archives from Marlow to my home in early January of 2003, 
> because my DSL
> > company went bankrupt and pulled the plug on their network then.
> >
> > I have no clue when I actually 'started' the archives, 
> other then a wild
> > guess at about 6 months before I moved it home.  So I would 
> say July or
> > August of 2002.
> >
> > Drew (Interesting timeline, eh?)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of 
> John Bartow
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:00 PM
> > To: _DBA-Access
> > Subject: [AccessD] Drew - Age of the Archives?
> >
> >
> > Drew,
> > Someone recently asked me how long I have been on this 
> list. The only
> point
> > of reference I could think of was about two years before I 
> sent all my
> > archives to Drew!
> >
> > So, Do you know when you put the archives together on your site?
> >
> > John "My memory is 40 years ahead of it time (I have a like 
> I'm over 80)"
> > Bartow
> >
> >
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