Jennifer Gross
jengross at gte.net
Tue Oct 9 20:08:03 CDT 2007
All my clients use Word, so anything I want to send to them needs to be in Word. Neither Word nor WordPerfect has a good translator from one to the other. The only profession I know of that has a strong WordPerfect following is the legal profession, but that too has dwindled. I think there are recent versions of WordPerfect out there. The latest is one I have is 2000 and came with a computer I bought. Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:48 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs Just curious, why can you 'hardly use' Wordperfect? Is it that you don't get the chance to use it, or does it have a problem running in a modern OS? Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jennifer Gross Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:39 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs We use percussive maintenance quite a bit in the US as well. I have one computer that needs a good smack with the heel of my hand every once in a while because the fan starts clattering and I can't stand the noise. (I know I need to replace the fan before the whole thing overheats.) The heel of the hand is great for eliminating many unwanted noises in electrical equipment. My first PC was the IBM pictured in the article. At the time, with the Epson dot matrix printer and a copy of Turbo Pascal, it was the largest check I had ever written - over $3,000. I still have the monitor - just moved it from the garage to the attic - don't ask me why I've kept it. It did not have a hard drive and I eventually put in a 10 meg drive and an additional floppy drive. There was so little RAM I can't remember how little. I used Turbo Pascal, VisiCalc, eventually Lotus 123, dBase II. I still have WordPerfect on one of my computers. Hate that I can hardly use it. Love Reveal Codes. Can never understand what the heck Word is doing with formatting. I've worked on Tandys in college. I also used Vector Graphics computers - they were the hot new thing in one lab, with Apple IIEs in the other. A PDP-11 (I think) was in the main lab. Jennifer -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:13 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs Hi All, Maybe it's a kind of Off-Topic for this Off-Topic thread, what I will write next but in the end of this message it should be clear that I'm on topic for this off-topic :) - pun intended :) I still remember the time I first time had watched a TV set, which my father bought and that was a black & white screen TV set, and we have had a high 7-8 antenna to receive TV signals - first this antenna was "sticked" to our house and I remember that when TV signal was bad we used to go outside to the side of the house where this antenna was installed and we used to beat it strongly, and that "beating" usually helped to get better TV-signal :) I also remember - I even clearly see the picture now, when I'm probably a 6 years old boy and I alone or with my mother go outside night winter time (and this is Russian winter you know), and it's not that dark and there is a moon and there are stars on the skies - all in all it is a magnificent frosty Russian winter night with a lot of sparkling from moonlight snow on the nearby trees etc. - and we have a movie on our TV, and TV signal got worsened on the most interesting event as usual - and so we go outside and beat our antenna strongly using heavy hammer - and voila' we had got very good TV signal and we can watch our TV serial further... ...soon we got our antenna installed very high on the nearby tree and TV signal became much better... ... in a few years later we got colored TV... ... ... ... ... now the house where I have got my first impression from our own black & white TV - that house has a satellite dish and I can get TV programmers from all around the World... ... and I can also use mobile Internet and when 3G and WiMAX technologies will soon become widespread then MS SilverLight will become as usual here as it was the snow sparkling on moonlight and a hammer I used to make TV signal better... If you do not have MS SilverLight yet installed then first watch this site http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ without SilverLight; then go and get downloaded and installed MS SilverLight here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx and then watch this page http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ again... You'll get (very) impressed is my bet.... -- Shamil P.S. Yes, I have seen HollyWood movies where slightly(?) drunken Russian cosmonauts used to use hammer or similar tools to fix their spaceships - that was funny... I do not think it was like that in reality but I can't state that for sure - after all from my story above you can find that a hammer was a rather universal tool here to fix many things even TV-signal :) ... P.P.S. Yes, we on Earth have got incredible technology progress in the last half of a century: - world first spaceship - Sputnik - was launched here on 7th of October 1957, - transistors were invented several years before at 1950 at Bell Labs, - one of the main methids of laser beam pumping was found in 1955 also here by Basov and Prokhorov based on works of Charles H. Townes... All that and many other foundation technologies were predesessors, which made MS SilverLight a reality of today... Unfortunately, as far as I can see, social progress is not getting developed to the better so rapidly worldwide as technologies do... And who knows what this "developing to the better social progress" is is becoming more and more open question today - at least as far as I see it... -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:55 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs Hi John You could have written her a macro or two. Oh boy, brings back memories struggling with the curly brackets. I wrote about 1990 in WP 5.x a lot of macros for clients - it was dark ages compared to now. /gustav >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 09-10-2007 18:45 >>> LOL. There was no future in WP. I kept telling her to email you with her questions but she refused... What was I to do? John W. 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