Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx15.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Friday! by Ashton Tate References: <3f7320dd-3234-4891-9755-5b9d854ba612n@googlegroups.com> <12c08092-8213-4c00-912f-c6cf4ef18d0en@googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <87h6w3fbn6.fsf@sc1f1dan.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UGYTtBQdbsPvLtUhSaRwzQJfMp0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 24 X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:31:25 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:31:25 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1834 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.tandy:645 "Gina Thomas Patterson (Ginaburningsky)" writes: > 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