My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with.
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit psst @tomjennings
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit i wrote so many school papers in Select86. If i ever want to see how bad they were, I’ll need a greaseweazle and a LOT of patience
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit I hope I did it justice for you.
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit yep, did this and even had a look at Emerald Bay...
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit After doing COBOL and BASIC on an intensive course aged 18-19 I quickly moved on to dBase II, III and Clipper. Started off on CP/M too.
It's mad how the whole industry has evolved since then. Never a fan of OO programming though.
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
I wrote a whole customer records, transaction recording, and billing system in dBase, ages ago. A really usable language.
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit Building a CRM system in dBase II, migrating it to III and extending it was one of my first programming gigs mid of the 80s.
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My father built his career on top of dBase, and as a kid I fished one of those luggable CP/M computers out of my school’s garbage dumpster to take home and tinker with. So I read this new Stone Tools article with even greater than usual interest.
dBASE on the Kaypro II
CP/M and dBASE were industry giants with everything to lose, and they did. For a time they were the power couple to beat.
Stone Tools (stonetools.ghost.io)
@jalefkowit ooh i used dBASE at a summer job once!
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