Re: dBase II

[Travise <Travise@gaia.org>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:24:12 -0700 (PDT), questar
<dan_wallace@juno.com> wrote:

>> >> I have looked in a bunch of the archives but have not founddBaseII and the supporting utilities (like Zip or Zipper for painting screens.) Does anyone know where this can be found?
>I got my copy dBase II, a CP/M program that does require a Z80 CP/M
>card, out early this morning and booted it up.  It is vintage of the
>late 70's.  There is a program on it named 'ZIP' which is for Screen
>Printout and Form Writer.
>
>ALL CP/M programs for the Apple that I know of, especially of that
>era, were only able of handling TeXT files, ie. no graphics.  The only
>exception to this was GBASIC which was a Microsoft CP/M basic system
>that could handle Graphics vice their regular system of MBASIC.  Both
>systems were for the Z80 that could run on the Apple CP/M system.
>
>In the past couple of months, there was a CP/M group started on Google
>groups.  You might check there.
>
>>> I also keep thinking that there was a pure Apple ][ version that did not need the CPM card. <<
>The ProDOS program 'Appleworks' is a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and
>database program that is put all together into a single program that
>is exclusively for the Apple.  maybe your thinking of that.
>
>I only have the 5.25" disk of dBase II, as well as many other CP/M
>systems and programs, and a hard copy of the manual.  Please let me
>know if you would like me to send you a copy of the disk.
>
>Dan Wallace
>dan_wallace@juno.com
Sorry for the delay in responding. I was out of town (nothing as sexy
as KFEST)

I found the disk images and was able to make the disk images. Also
found a COBOL compiler although I'm not sure what I'm going to do with
it but that isn't the point. Thanks for the reference.

So last weekend my neighbor two doors down asks me to help go through
a bunch of old computer stuff he got from his father's house. Seems
that they kept most of the stuff he used as a kid to run a bbs. Long
story short in the last box is a ms z-80 board. He said he remembered
it from years ago but it never fit anything. I picked up the board and
said follow me. We came back here, I poped off the top of the Apple,
inserted the board, inserted the disk, and 56k cp/m popped up on the
screen. I can't repeat what he said.

Since then I have added dBase II and WordStar to the mix of 5-1/4"
disks This is fun again.