Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math

Hi :)
Lol, it is ironic that this whole 'new Cloud' thing is exactly what people worked hard to get away 
from just a decade or 2 ago!! Lol
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 24/5/12, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

From: Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational software for math
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 7:49

Hi Simon,

Le 2012-05-24 02:08, Simon Cropper a écrit :

> In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1
> {http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ibm_pc_5150.jpg/250px-Ibm_pc_5150.jpg}
> with Ashton Tate's dbase II on it! Green letters on a nearly black
> screen. I still have a pang of nostalgia when hearing the whir of the
> hard drive as it takes 1-2 minutes to boot up. The start of the
> serverless revolution!

Hey! I wrote my own accounting system using AtariST's DbMan (an Ashton Tate dBaseIII clone). It 
worked great! I still have an AtariSTE in a box with an old RLL 30 meg drive and 12 inch monitor. 
:-)

Cheers,

Marc


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