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

On 05/24/2012 04:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 :)
+1
> --- 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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