RFC: ClassicCmp Demographics/Geographics

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Feb 10 18:29:18 2002

At 05:46 PM 2/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
>
>> Hey.
>> Along the lines of last week's "specialty" thread, I'm kind of curious
>> where the various members (including and especially lurkers) live.
>> Maybe more to the point, where our various machines and parts dumps
>> reside....
>
>Yeah, that sounds like a good/useful idea. I'd be willing to do some work
>on setting this up. I could even host the database... right now, using
>a server on Purdue's campus.
>
>> I've managed so far never to touch a database, but this strikes me as
>> an interesting-enough and simple-enough first project. I'm interested
>> in listing and correlating several things:
>
>The last time I've really played with a database was back in Windows 3.1
>days with Microsoft Access. However, I know people that know what they're
>doing and could assist me ;). [I'd propose a system set up on a Linux
>server, not Windows of course.]

   Linux, bah! Set it up on a 64k floppy drive only CPM system using DBase
version 1.


   Joe
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 18:29:18 GMT