Here's a fun, related story.
In college I was in the sailing club, and they used a spreadsheet to keep track of membership. They only had Macs in the boathouse. I wrote a membership tracker in FPW 2.6 and then walked a floppy over to the boathouse and ran the app, unmodified, on their Mac that had FoxPro.
As I was about to graduate, I met with my advisor and it turned out I was One Credit short of my requirements. I just about panicked, but he asked me about any independent work I'd been doing for the University. I told him about my project for the sailing club, and he gave me a credit of independent study. Boom - FoxPro helped me get my degree in Computer Science.
A few years later I went into the boathouse. They'd already updated their membership tracking app to something else using FileMaker. I wonder if whoever did that got credit?
Eric
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 8:43 PM Michael Oke, II okeind@gmail.com wrote:
It was, after a fashion, ancient history. I remember creating a Mac 3.0 app from a DOS app. Fun times.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 08:43 Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:16 AM John Weller john@johnweller.co.uk wrote:
I should have remembered!
Well, it is ANCIENT history, at this point. :)
(and I had been shipping commercial apps for 20 years then ;)
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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