[AccessD] Office 2007

Back in the day I fixed electronics and built my own computers from kits.
My CPM machine was a single board computer (as they were called back then)
with a 16 mhz 80186 and 512K of ram.  I had dual 8" floppies which set me
back $800 for the pair of floppy drives.  I built that in 1983 and it was
the fastest machine I owned until I purchased my 20 mhz '386 in 1988.  I
gave the CPM machine away when I bought a PCXT.  The XT was slower but it
ran DOS and had a hard drive and could use a ram board that I stuffed with 4
mb or ram.  I used that for a ram drive.  

I never used  dBase II but I bought dBase III, Word Perfect and Lotus 123
when I got the XT.  That was the office suite back then.  It is only in the
last few years that I have had a machine that felt as fast as those early
machines, with enough horsepower to overcome the load of Windows and Office.


And now comes Vista.  8-(  And Office 2007.  8-((


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Don Bozarth
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:38 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 2007

It was a CP/M machine based on Godbout S100 motherboard... Z80 processor... 
full 64K ram... Gone are the days...

Don B.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 2007


> Unfortunately I don't, but I do have a virtual CP/M and I have 
> successfully
> installed dBASE II on it. Why, you might ask. Because it was possible! 
> dBASE
> II was 60k of assembly language. It booted in one second, off a floppy!
>
> Incidentally, what computer did your 8" floppies suit? Don't say Millenium
> or I'll have to kill you. LOL.
>
> On 6/24/07, Don Bozarth <drboz at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>
>> Somewhere around here I still have a copy of WordStar for CP/M on 8"
>> floppies.....
>>
>> Don B.
>>
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