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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 1, 2012 at 04:40 PM
Hugh wrote:
>“Terminate and
>Stay Resident” was the jargon name for the type of DOS programme that the original
>Sidekick represented
>- a great title for a horror movie I’ve always thought.)
Hmm, Terminator vs. Resident Evil.
Could be a blockbuster crossover film like Alien vs. Predator!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator_%28film%29
Posted by Francis Morrone
Feb 1, 2012 at 06:09 PM
For me, the late 1980s and early 1990s was the golden age of personal computing, when computers augmented our brains before Google replaced them. At least, I have never since been as excited about software. Lotus Agenda remains my all-time favorite piece of software. And in the my-how-things-have-changed department, how about those manuals that used to come with Lotus software? As I recall, the Agenda manual was four or five thick volumes. A far cry from Zoot XT!
Posted by Mitchell Kastner
Feb 1, 2012 at 08:26 PM
You all are late to the party. I was running KAMAS, an outliner, on my Kaypro 4 under CP/M. Cannot remember exactly when but I am thinking early 80s. Would dump all outliners, PMs, etc in a heartbeat if I could find a true relational database; viz., MS Access, if only it allowed for creation of hierarchical table. I mean have any of you actually dabbled with QBE? IMHO you actually have not conducted a search until you have created a multi-table search on multiple fields using the myriad of connectors and operators that are usually available.
Brilliant is a true relational database which uses folders in a tree-like structure, but so far as I can tell the folders are not a traditional RDM table. Besides, creating queries is too laborious for me as I was spoiled beyond recovery by MS Access QBE.
I have tested UR but unlike Pavi Johnson I found its exporting to RTF quirky. I dragged and dropped cases in txt format to create UR items but was unable to export them at all much less as RTF documents. I am sticking with Writing Outliner, but I am clearly missing out writing on the nuggets I am sure are in the database because of limited search capabilities. Again, unless you have worked with QBE…..
Posted by Lucas
Feb 2, 2012 at 01:53 AM
Mitchell Kastner wrote:
>You all are late to the party. I was running KAMAS, an outliner, on my Kaypro 4 under
>CP/M.
I’m of a younger generation, but I think I did get KAMAS running on DoxBox a year or two ago, and it looked good.
>Cannot remember exactly when but I am thinking early 80s. Would dump all
>outliners, PMs, etc in a heartbeat if I could find a true relational database; viz., MS
>Access, if only it allowed for creation of hierarchical table.
What about InfoQube? I believe it’s built on the same engine (jet-something?) as MS Access. And it’s query language is close to SQL, I seem to recall.
Posted by WSP
Feb 2, 2012 at 03:40 AM
My favorite information manager during the 1990s was ProCite. I used it not only for citations but also (by renaming fields) as a general database. It made a surprisingly good note-taker.
I still have it installed on both of my computers, though I haven’t used it for almost a decade, and I have countless ProCite files that have never been liberated.
Just writing about it makes me almost nostalgic!