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Posted by Bob Mackreth
Apr 5, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Cassius wrote:
>
>Far too many PIMs, far too many upgrades, far too many knowledge structuring
>concepts, and certainly, far too many information sources, and duplicative
>information sources.
>
>This topic may be the most important of all that have appeared
>in this and the preceeding forums. Thank you, Dominik and those before, for
>explicating it. Even being retired, I spend far too much time searching for a “better”
>PIM. There are far more productive things I could be doing. Sleep, sex, and writing the
>book that’s burning in my brain come to mind.
With all respect, Cassius, you’re overlooking one important factor: for many of us, playing around with software is fun.
Popping into this forum is my equivalent of a car buff spending time on an auto forum, or a sport fisherman hanging out online with other anglers.
“All work and no play,” you know. :)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 5, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Bob Mackreth wrote:
>With all
>respect, Cassius, you’re overlooking one important factor: for many of us, playing
>around with software is fun.
>
That’s the truth! I remember when I had my first computer—one of those clunky “portable” Compaqs that had the monitor built in and two 5.25 inch floppy drives. The first thing I did was get a flat file database program and create a database of all the books I had read—which, until then, I’d kept in a notebook. Uncountable computers later, I still have the remnants of that same file which I now keep in the desktop version of Ilium ListPro. Among other favorite DOS programs there was a program called InstantRecall, really the first PIM I owned… no, wait, I had Sidekick before InstantRecall… Then I got hold of a wonderful little note manager called MemoryMate. Finally, I found GrandView and my view of software changed forever.
Steve Z.
Posted by Bob Mackreth
Apr 5, 2007 at 04:31 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> I remember when I had my first computer—one of those clunky “portable”
>Compaqs that had the monitor built in and two 5.25 inch floppy drives.
Sounds just like my Kaypro 2 !
> The first thing I
>did was get a flat file database program and create a database of all the books I had read
>—which, until then, I’d kept in a notebook.
Heh… it was Perfect Filer and LP records for me. (Remember LPs? Remember CP/M? Remember woolly mammoths?)
> Finally, I found GrandView and my view of software changed
>forever.
Out-Think, for me.
Bob
Posted by Cassius
Apr 5, 2007 at 04:54 PM
Bob Mackreth wrote,“With all respect, Cassius, you’re overlooking one important factor: for many of us, playing around with software is fun.
“Popping into this forum is my equivalent of a car buff spending time on an auto forum, or a sport fisherman hanging out online with other anglers.
“‘All work and no play,’ you know. :)”
AND
Steve Zeoli agreed, “That’s the truth! “
Hey, you guys! Didn’t you read my last point, “*Spend a LITTLE time seeing what’s new and reading this forum’s postings”?
I said “LITTLE” because I should be writing my book, not this.
———-
My first was a Commodore 64 with the marvelous Pocket Writer. It’s amazing what tightly crafted code can do. Then, on to a heavy NEC notebook with two floppies (A:, B:) and GrandView. (Agenda wouldn’t fit.)
-c
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 5, 2007 at 05:18 PM
Cassius wrote:
>My first was a Commodore 64 with the marvelous Pocket Writer. It’s
>amazing what tightly crafted code can do. Then, on to a heavy NEC notebook with two
>floppies (A:, B:) and GrandView. (Agenda wouldn’t fit.)
Cassius,
My second computer too was the NEC notebook with the two floppies! That didn’t last too long after I discovered the value of a hard drive!
Steve Z.