Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net>]

I am no stranger to large ADB files. The Eamon club's membership file was an
ADB. And if you were there, you will remember that I was once the guy who
built and uploaded the monthly GEnie file database, that required over a
megabyte of desk space just to load and a good bit more to manipulate. I
built them on my Transwarped 3MB IIe until I finally managed to snag a 4MB
card for my GS. 4MB cards used to be very hard to come by for a reasonable
price. The IIe did a perfectly good job, but on a file this size the
improved compression of GSHK was very worthwhile.

In any event, a database was wholly inappropriate to what I was doing with
the Eamon ratings. Its purpose was to extract information from the data as
well as store the raw data itself.

How is the limited cell display space on a IIe improved when it is a
database rather than a spreadsheet?  This particular spreadsheet ran about
35 columns by some 250 rows. The thought of using the individual-record
display mode does not appeal to me as a way to work through 7500 records.

Tom Zuchowski

"Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote in message
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> You would have been better off with a database than a spreadsheet then.
> Appleworks does those too :-)
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> Simon.
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> "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > I used to keep an enormous Appleworks spreadsheet that tracked user
> ratings
> > of Eamon adventures. It was so hard to use that I wound up duplicating
key
> > columns and rows over and over again so that I could keep track of what
I
> > was doing on my IIe's tiny screen real estate.
> >
> > I find myself much fonder of spreadsheets when they are run at 1024 or
> 1278
> > resolutions. <g>
> >
> > Tom Zuchowski
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