[AccessD] A2000: Am I blind? (swe)

Gustav,

Thanks for that Ansa story. When I still worked for a computer
reseller I had a 6-foot poster on my wall given to us by an Ansa
sales/training rep who trainied us on v. 1.0. I was electrified by the
Query By Example interface. The queries looked just like the examples
from a Chris Date book.

I used to keep a list of pluses and minuses, Access vs. Paradox. I
gave it up because there wasn't any point anymore. I have only a few
Paradox clients left,  for one or two of whom I'm translating the apps
into Access.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:19:43 +0100, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
> Hi Steve
> 
> Once upon a time a played with Paradox 1 - the original from Ansa Soft.
> I never did much with it but its manual was quite good, and it was there
> I saw the light and learned the power of a relational database - in one
> moment all the flat file things like RapidFile became obsolete and
> totally outdated to me.
> 
> I kept it for many years but a couple of years ago I gave my copy to a
> local computer museum including the original runtime I happened to
> receive from Ansa by request.
> 
> I have never worked seriously with Paradox for Windows but I guess you
> are right; it had some nice features but Access seemed more capable to
> me so I never bothered.
> 
> /gustav