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From: Woody on 8 Jun 2010 19:59 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:32:27 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > Ceresole) wrote: > > ><address_is(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > > > >> The street finds it's own use for things > > > >That *was* from Gibson wasn't it? I always thought so but I could be > >wrong. Not Sterling... It has that perfect Gibson swing, and the sharp > >insight... > > Yes - it's in Burning Chrome, the short story in the collection of the > same name. "If your main squeeze has just decided to walk out on you, booze and Vasopressin are the ultimate in masochistic pharmacology; the juice makes you maudlin and the Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things." -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jim on 9 Jun 2010 01:11 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > > Oh well; it's not techology. Like all futurist books, it's *magic*. I > > mentioned to Gibson that I'd seen the US DoD videos he refers to in > > Neuromancer and said how much I admired his imagining of immersive > > interfaces, at a time when the thing that welcomed you to the most > > widely used database of the time, DBase 1, was a single *dot* on the > > <bzzzt> There was no dBase 1 - it started at II. (But it did start with > a dot. Which was perfectly okay in the days when you were expected to > RTFM first.) ..modi comm myprog I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). I want those years back. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Peter Ceresole on 9 Jun 2010 01:51 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a > decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). There you go. I only encountered dBaseII via a friend who wrote a lepidopterists' database, so I always associated that dot with beetles, and somehow imagined there must be a dBaseI out there. And ever since, I've hated all databases. > I want those years back. Aaaaah. The beetles were so beautiful. -- Peter
From: jim on 9 Jun 2010 02:05 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for > > about a >> decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). > > There you go. I only encountered dBaseII via a friend who wrote a > lepidopterists' database, so I always associated that dot with > beetles, > and somehow imagined there must be a dBaseI out there. And ever since, > I've hated all databases. Yes, dBase had that effect on people... Jim -- Sent from Jim's iPad
From: Woody on 9 Jun 2010 02:38
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > > > > Oh well; it's not techology. Like all futurist books, it's *magic*. I > > > mentioned to Gibson that I'd seen the US DoD videos he refers to in > > > Neuromancer and said how much I admired his imagining of immersive > > > interfaces, at a time when the thing that welcomed you to the most > > > widely used database of the time, DBase 1, was a single *dot* on the > > > > <bzzzt> There was no dBase 1 - it started at II. (But it did start with > > a dot. Which was perfectly okay in the days when you were expected to > > RTFM first.) > > .modi comm myprog > > > I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a > decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). I used II and III extensively, although I don't remember using IV. I loved III. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |