Crimping in the 80s and 90s

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 1, 2012 at 10:52 AM

Strangely, I’ve missed much of the tools discussed here; I don’t think I had even heard of them at the time. In the 80’s, as a student, I had mostly used word processors and Framework, apart for dedicated engineering software. Then, up to the mid-90’s I worked mostly with flat-file and relational databases: I recall File Express, Alpha 4, Wampum (!) and Paradox; I never learnt dBase. I also used Word Perfect 5.1 and Quattro Pro.

Then Windows 95 came, we moved on to MS Word, Excel and Access, and it took me half a decade to recover and get my stuff under control again—assuming I ever did.