[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

I started out doing COBOL and CICS command and macro level stuff
against DL/I databases. First on an IBM 360 and later on a 4361. Later
the company replaced the 4361 with AS/400 so I learned RPG which had
the relational database integrated with the operating system. Access
seemed like a good step from there so I took a night school class at a
Jr College and the rest is history....

I got into my current employer because I had both COBOL and Access
skills - they were still using COBOL on a UNIX platform and Access was
their report writer. Now that has been abandoned for the back hole of
Oracle Applications 11i
;-)   I'm still using Access for a lot of ad-hoc and quick and dirty
reporting for management though.


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:32:34 -0500, Tina Norris Fields
<tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com