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Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate

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"Gina Thomas Patterson (Ginaburningsky)" <ginaburningsky@gmail.com>
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> On Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 8:29:05 AM UTC-7, james.rice@gmail.com wrote:
>> Does anyone have a copy of Friday! by Ashton Tate or know where a
>> copy may be archived?. I purchased a copy when I bought my first
>> Tandy 1000A in 1985. It was dBase II based with a runtime engine and
>> was actually pretty cool for it's time. I ran my inventory for my
>> electrical contracting business on it and even wrote a compiled
>> Basic bridge program to download a text file from a Tandy Model 100
>> into the Friday database. I carried the Model 100 with me and used
>> the barcode wand to scan parts as I pulled them off the service
>> truck in the field. I was working on a Turbo Pascal rewrite of that
>> program when Windows hit the scene and I stopped coding.
>> 
>> Friday! was distributed on 5-1/4" floppies and I think there were
>> two discs in the box. It was sold back when Tandy was copying IBM
>> with all the cute hard backed binders in the slipcover cases.
>> 
>> James

Wow what an interesting thread!

Daniel

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Friday!  by Ashton Tate "james.rice@gmail.com" <james.rice@gmail.com> - 2022-09-22 08:29 -0700
  Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate "Gina Thomas Patterson (Ginaburningsky)" <ginaburningsky@gmail.com> - 2022-10-24 19:30 -0700
    Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2023-02-03 07:31 +0000
  Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate "Gina Thomas Patterson (Ginaburningsky)" <ginaburningsky@gmail.com> - 2022-10-24 19:36 -0700
    Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate "james.rice@gmail.com" <james.rice@gmail.com> - 2022-10-24 20:06 -0700
      Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate "james.rice@gmail.com" <james.rice@gmail.com> - 2022-11-08 10:04 -0800

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