I seem to remember reading that "Ashton" was Tate's
pet parrot. . . .
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:04:58 -0800 (PST) "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)"
<cisin(a)xenosoft.com> writes:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
The Ashton-Tate product started with dBase
II...there
never
was a version 1. Myself, I always preferred
Rbase.
There also wasn't an "Ashton" in "Ashton-Tate". George Tate just
though
that publisher names like Prentice-Hall and McGrah-Hill sounded
neat.
He was once asked what the best moment of his career was. He
replied that
it was building a radio controlled blimp to use for advertising
inside
Comdex. He was then asked about the worst. "finding out that we
couldn't
use the blimp in Comdex"
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