[AccessD] Office 2007

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Hi John,

These "beasts" above run rather well and are very speedy here on DELL
Inspiron 9400...

Although my daughter somehow managed to put both of them on "knees" after
one long day she spent preparing her student coursework documents - she just
used copy and paste from MS Excel 2007's tables and charts to MS Word 2007
documents - only "cold" reboot allowed to "solve" the issue when MS Office
Word 2007 (or was that DELL's HDD overheating issue?) started to swap
endlessly and HDD started "snoozing" and screen got stuck and lost its
Vista's beauty: that wasn't "blue screen of death" - just something with
some parts of screen being black, others having displayed parts of Vista
desktop or MS Word docs...

But all in all Vista and MS Office 2007 look not bad at all IMO...

Question: Have anybody there seen in action/used a computer which was
possible to program using special metallic sticks or even more - using
sticks with connected wires to them?: I used here the first (that was a
mini-computer :)) while in the college and I have seen here but didn't use
the second (that was rather big), which was getting replaced by IBM PC XTs -
but before XTs appeared in that company they did use this strange
computer(?) to help them to calculate payroll for their customers - this was
what is called now Application Service Provider company i.e. a company,
which calculated salary for their customer companies using this "metallic
wired sticks" computer - I think I have seen somewhere a picture of
something like that from IBM(?) - that soviet computer I mention here was
probably a copycat of IBM's electro-mechanical computers of
1920-ies/1930-ies... (I have seen it here in around year 1991 - this is when
it was replaced by XTs...)

--
Shamil
 
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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 

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