Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Thu Nov 18 19:32:34 CST 2004
Oh my, Steve, That sounds so like me! I thought Paradox was the be-all and end-all back in '93! And I absolutely fell in love with dBase III (I think) in '87. Anybody else get hooked back then on COBOL and/or RPG? I remember the IBM 370 and punch cards, but I can't say I loved them. Geez, what fun, Tina Steven W. Erbach wrote: >John, > >I'm not sure that my programming history is as long or as intense as yours, but I guess as I get older my ability to absorb new technologies quickly is hampered. Though, I have to say, that .NET is so much bigger than any other new thing I've learned, I think I'm allowed a bit of bewilderment, eh? > >I came to Access from Paradox for Windows, which I thought was the absolute coolest application I'd ever seen except for high-end CAD back in '93. Before that it was Paradox for DOS and dBASE IV, III, and II. I wrote my first dBASE II app in '82, I'm pretty sure. Dabbled with PL/I at the technical college in the early 70s and was able to put my nose against the glass to watch the operators feed my punch cards into an IBM 370. I still love punch cards. > >Steve Erbach >Neenah, WI > >sweblog1.blogspot.com > > > > >>------------Original Message------------ >>From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> >>To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> >>Date: Wed, Nov-17-2004 3:36 PM >>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET >> >>ROTFL. >> >>I have to believe though that you have forgotten your early days >>learning >>Access, when all the millions of properties and events were so much >>Greek, >>and you had no idea what an object model was, never mind how to find it >>or >>how to interpret it. >> >>I distinctly remember moving from procedural "start at the top (or with >>Turbo Pascal - the bottom) and start executing" code to Event driven >>"how >>can you ever know where the code is going to execute next". I really >>got >>into Access "full time" in 1994 and there was no internet. There was >>no >>Access Users Group, in fact I was on the BOD of the San Diego Users >>Group >>sitting in on that first meeting singing "halleluiah" that I would >>finally >>have someone to talk to about Access. Once a month users group >>meetings. >>There were very few books, and the ADH was waaaaay over my head. >> >>Yea sure, now that I have spent 10 years learning it, Access is indeed >>"chocolates on the pillow". >> >>John W. Colby >>www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >