[AccessD] Apparently Code {project is in a Nostalgic Mood today

[John Colby]

BTW that was in Sorrento Valley, right next door to Rocky though I didn't
kn ow him at that time.  Although I actually might have.  Back in those
days there was no internet and so I would go to user group meetings down in
San Diego somewhere.  It is likely that I met him there in the early
nineties.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 4:48 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I started programming with Turbo Pascal on CPM86 around 1983 ish.  I had
> built a single board computer with an 80186 running at a smoking 16 mhz,
> 512K of SRam, a dual 8" floppy and two RS232 ports.  At the time I was
> working for Megatek Corp, a manufacturer of graphics terminals.
>
> You know you are old when the article about the company you worked for is
> labeled "a history lesson"
>
> Megatek Graphics
> <https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102711966>
>
> At any rate one day I found 4 of their "low end" graphics teminas in the
> dumpster.  As my job was to fix these things I hauled them out of the
> dumpster and went in to ask my boss if I could have them.  To which they
> replied "No, they have to be destroyed - tax write offs".  They were
> engineering development machines, essentially prototypes of what had become
> production machines.  Anyway... I eventually persuaded them to let me keep
> them - after I had signed a document agreeing not to sell them.
>
> So now I had a full on state of the art personal computer and 4 graphics
> terminals which were actually more powerful than my personal computer.  I
> had a friend Richard, who was a programmer for Megatek writing drivers for
> our terminals.  He came to my house after I got everything set up and
> showed me how to write the drivers (in turbo pascal) for these machines.
>
> The start of a long and fruitful career.  I actually worked as a
> programmer using Turbo Pascal throughout the late 80s, until I switched to
> Microsoft Access and VBA in 1992.
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 9:27 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost (substack.com)
>> <https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and>
>>
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