[Dxbase] DXbase Trivia

Wed Oct 26 11:21:32 EDT 2011

Hi Jack,
I still have my floppies right on the shelf. Wow you had 64k of memory 
back then? You must have been rich!
Bill Marx W2CQ
On 10/26/2011 9:06 AM, Jack wrote:
> So, decided to do some spring cleaning and ran across my very first notes in
> planning for the introduction release of DXbase. Thought I'd share ....
>> Did you know that the very first release of DXbase was programmed on a
> Sperry computer with 64k of memory, no hard drive, two 360k floppy drives.
> It was done with a Borland C compiler that loaded from a floppy disk. Did
> you know that DXbase was the second logging program on the market to include
> an interface to packetcluster. Up till then, only CT had this functionality
> for contesting and no other general logging program had this capability.
>> My, the times have changed... LOL
>> Jack
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