NEWSTV1@CARLETON.CA (11/15/89)
May I respectfully suggest that BobR and Richard Con are
so absolutely right that we just close off this conversation
about whether TTs will never match 386s and whether Apples
are 9 or 10 Mhz faster than STEs, etc. Bob and dick, youu
are absolutely right, we all admit it, so now please
port all your future messages to the IBM and Mac boards
andyou will be praised to the skies. Thank you. End
of conversation.
Now the rest of us who (like me) have had 1040Sts for
three years and found them faster, cheaper, more reliable
and more useful than any other machine including the
Idiot-Brained-Monsters we have to use at work should perhaps
use this forum to help each other with useful information and
hints about how to do even better.
Her's my contribution-- someone was asking for information
about a database program that used "Make One" and "use one"
instructions. This is either Base Two, a commercial and very
good GEM-based database that I use and like, or its predecessor,
which I believe was called dbOne. It was given away along
with
with First Word by Atari in the early days and is not as powerful
as the later, upgraded, Base Two, but base Two uses its files.
I'd recommend using Base Two, but the first one is quite acceptable.
It is quite easy to use-- the Make one Creates the dabatase
fields and forms, the Use one is to insert the data. Manuals
should still be available. But I'd buy Base Two and be done
with it.
Word processors: I have seen ads in a British magazine
for what appears to be an upgraded version of Word Writer, which
is, as you know, written by GST in Britain (same ppl who did
First Word and First Word Plus). If anyone from Timeworks
is on this system, can they say if Timeworks plans any upgrade
that is similar? I have WW 2.01 (which is, I think the latest)
and I like it, but would love to have it enhanced to meet
the competition from Word Up or First Word Plus. Anyone hear
any details?
They say I am a miser but I do not buy that-- old Slovak proverb