20 Jul
2019
20 Jul
'19
1:37 p.m.
I never could figure out why would anybody need dbase IV when RMS was
built into the VAX file system?
I once did a media conversion from Vax to PC where the programmers said
the uVax II was as slow as molasses, then I found that they had the data
stored as a flat ASCII file !
On 20/07/2019 16:15, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini
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Sent: 20 July 2019 18:20
To: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: dBase IV for VAX/VMS (was WordPerfect 5.1+ for VMS)
On 20/07/2019 00:15, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Lotus 1-2-3 had AL-IN-1 integration (at least that's what the announcement
of it's retirement suggests. It sounds like Lotus developed and sold it and
Digital just advertised it. The retirement happened in 1995.
Back in 1991, all three were available on the VAXstation 4000 VLC:
"VAXstation 4000 VLC
The VAXstation 4000 VLC workstation is the first workstation in the industry
to break the $3,500 price barrier. Offering 6.2 SPECmarks (6 VUPs) of
processing power, this system is twice as powerful as the previous entry-
level VAXstation 3100 Model 30 system. This low price and DEC SoftPC V3.0
software (Digital's PC emulator) or native applications, such as Lotus 1-2-3,
dBASE IV, or WordPerfect, make the VAXstation 4000 VLC system a desirable
alternative to PCs in the VMS environment. For more information regarding
DEC SoftPC software, see the related article in this issue of Digital's Customer
Update."
I don't see a price anywhere so I can't tell how "low" it really was
:-)
Antonio
Well given what you say above I would guess $3,499!
Does any one know if its possible to buy traded 123 , WP, DBASE or SoftPC for the VLC?
It would be real fun to see how slow they were on the VLC although it does seem to run
the software I have installed very smoothly
Dave
On 7/19/19 4:04 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
>> On Jul 18, 2019, at 8:58 PM, Eric Dittman via cctalk
<cctalk at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> On 7/18/2019 12:26 AM, Zane Healy via
cctalk wrote:
>>> On a related note, was there ever a copy of dBase III or dBase IV for
VAX/VMS? I know there was a version of Lotus 1-2-3.
>> I don't know about the earlier
versions but I have a copy of dBase
>> IV for VAX/VMS that's still in the shrink-wrap.
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>> Eric Dittman
> Interesting, so my vague memory was correct. That means they had
WordPerfect,
Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase IV available. Was there All-IN-1
integration? I think both WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 offered that.
There
seems to be almost no info online on it.
I just looked and none of the three were included in the VAX Software
Source Book.
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