Subject Re: DBASE II Information From Kevin Butler <kevinb500@gmail.com> Date Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:35:12 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Don, I appreciate that you are willing to loan me your disks.  I managed to find said disks, in .img format, on another site.  Just did my basic install and away I went to the dot prompt.  It has been a very long time to say the least. The version I remember using was one that the Navy had bought ( I don't think I gave any input on that decision) back in 1985.  Needless to say, was use one of those single-unit Zeniths with a pair of 360K floppies, green-phos monitor, unknown amount of memory, and  keyboard that tended to stick if I typed too fast.  Oh yes, a dot-matrix printer of unknown type that printed both letter and very wide-papered reports. I hope to be getting the book already mentioned in a few days and we'll see if that was the one.  I know parts of it can be applied to things nowadays. Thank you again for your assistance on this, Kevin Don Wrote: > >Good afternoon, > > > >This one involves the quest for information so I'm hoping there are other > > > >"old-timers", such as myself, who worked with DBASE in its infancy back in > > > >the early 80's. > > > > >   > > > >Kevin Butler > > Hi Kevin, > > I bought my 1st version of dbaseII in 1984 and after "learning" how to use it [sort of] wrote some programs to use in my office. > > Oh well the first version of almost everything needs work. > > But I have my original DbaseII disk if you have a drive which are probably at least as scarce as the book you speek of. > > I would be happy to loan my disks to you if they would be of any help. > > Don >