RE: DB Master

[ggonter@together.net (Geof Gonter)]

DL>D. Lee (leed@sfsu.edu) wrote:
DL>: Dave,
DL>
DL>:       I may be wrong, but wasn't DB Master (maybe Pro too) re-released
DL>: as shareware a long while back or something??  I believe it was, but I
DL>: don't have any confirmation of it anywhere.  Maybe someone else could help
DL>: out.  

DA>I don't actually  know.  I have a copy of DB Master that I downloaded, and
DA>it is complete with shareware notice.  If I can make it do what I want,
DA>I'm more than willing to register it...but I am not willing to mail off a
DA>check when I have no idea if I have a valid address or not.

DA>Based on the advertisement on the DB Master program, I'm really interested
DA>in investigating the Pro version due to the reported relational
DA>capabilities (sounds like exactly what I need...).  So I am interested in
DA>availability...commercial, shareware, freeware, postcardware, lunchware,
DA>or whatever, I just want to know 'ware' I can find the program.  Unless of
DA>course it turns out to be vapor-ware, but based on an email I got tonight,
DA>that doesn't appear to be the case.

DB Master Pro was last published in 1991. Barney Stone, then of Stone Edge
Technologies, P. O. Box 3200, Maple Glen, PA 19002 (215)641-641-1825 was
the originator of the program. He closed out sales a year or two later,
but still continued to support the program for a couple of years. At the
end he was selling the program for $99.00 plus shipping. I believe I have
tried that phone #, but not the address, a couple years ago and had no
success. I heard that he was working on a couple of MSDOS based programs
after that. I have asked on this newsgroup several times if anyone knew
where barney was, but never got an answer. Maybe Joe Kohn knows. BTW,
Barney also published an Apple II newsletter for a little while. I met him
at AppleFest Boston in 1989. I still have the copies of the little paper
he put out.

The shareware version Ibelieve $45) is not relational, but is still a darn
better data base than anything else developed for the II line. I used the
shareware version to keep some cost figures for a business, until I bought
the Pro version. I never realized the power that the version had until I
used it on a IIgs with 8 Megs. of RAM, a TransWarp GS, and a hard drive. I
used to keep several files, labor records, material input, inventory, and
output for a business for a couple years. I was surprised to go back last
winter and find they were still using it. I bought a copy for myself as
well. It is one smooth running little database. You might be able to find
it by asking in the a2.for.sale newsgroup.

If you have any more questions about it, please feel free to ask. No, I'm
not interested in selling my copy. In case you can't get it, and you still
want to use the II and need to have relational capabilties, for report
writing, you might look into using AppleWorks and TimeOut ReportWriter.
I've also used that combination as well.

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