Howdy,
I just thought of something. Are any of you using a database to
catalogue what software you use/have for these old machines?
I've got a database that came on a Big Blue Disk back around '88
called Software Indexer. It's small and all but has some nice
features including cascading menus with a lot of pre-defined
categories. These can be edited/deleted/added to.
There's not much data entry because of the menus/pick-lists.
Once you type in the name of the program everything else is a matter
of choosing what's there except for the comments field.
Here's examples that may interest you (jeez I sound like I'm
spamming a new product here). Example/sample of menu selections:
System
Macintosh
MFS (Old format)
HFS (Current format)
Lisa Office System
Apple II Series
Apple ProDOS 8
Apple ProDOS 16
Apple DOS 3.3
Apple DOS 3.2
Apple CP/M
Apple Pascal
Apple GEOS
Apple /// (SOS)
CP/M
CP/M-80
CP/M-86
CP/M-68K
Orphan Machines
Timex/Sinclair
TI 99/4
TI Professional
Osborne
Exidy Sorcerer
CompuColor 2
SOL-20
Ohio Scientific
Altair
Cromemco
Mainframes
DecSystem-10/PDP-10
DecSystem-20
RSTS
Multics
Minicomputers
IBM System 34/36
DEC VAX (VMS)
PDP-11
Video Game Systems
Atari VCS (2600)
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
ColecoVision
Magnavox Odyssey 2
Sega Master System
(more)
Medium
5.25" floppy
Double-density
High-density
Single-sided
"Flippy"
8" floppy
"Twiggy" (old Lisa)
And all the other stuff. Atari's, Amiga's, Commodore's, Intel x86,
etc.
Other categories/menus are Distribution & Category. All customizable
'til you run out of menu space (easy to do).
Anyhind, if anyone's interested I can zip it up and send it
to whoever's interested. It is/was shareware.
I used to get Big Blue Disk but don't remember if I got this from
there or from a BBS way back when.
Marc
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Received on Mon Apr 28 1997 - 03:11:37 BST