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    #41
    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
    Anyone else remember the days when Wordperfect was the Daddy? AmiPro was so crap they couldn't give it away...

    yes, - i do, - anything lotus is crap IMO, why i always disliked gigs for big blue.

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      #42
      Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
      Why aren't you finding us interesting news stories to read like poo girl?

      You are on the bench after all.

      As I said you are a lazy fecker!


      Thing is I have mainly been out doing things that are usually too busy to enjoy.

      Brighton was bliss last Monday, would always avoid at the weekend.

      But....you are right I really should be making far more effort
      The Chunt of Chunts.

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        #43
        Originally posted by BR14 View Post
        yes, - i do, - anything lotus is crap IMO,
        I disagree, the Esprit was pretty good in its day.
        …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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          #44
          Originally posted by BR14 View Post
          yes, - i do, - anything lotus is crap IMO, why i always disliked gigs for big blue.
          Lotus 123 died once they binned off BASIC macros for LotusScript. BB have pretty much managed to kill Cognos off too.
          The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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            #45
            Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
            Lotus 123 died once they binned off BASIC macros for LotusScript. BB have pretty much managed to kill
            Cognos off too.
            However bad Lotus was (and ISTR when I used it years ago it was dire), it was bliss compared to Microsoft Docpoint.

            No commercial program used in the last 50 years has been so utterly atrocious as Docpoint!
            Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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              #46
              Originally posted by BR14 View Post
              yes, - i do, - anything lotus is crap IMO, why i always disliked gigs for big blue.
              My first contract was creating a d/b in Lotus123 (DOS version). My first renewal was to convert it into Access. To start with they didn't have a spare desk so I worked on a laptop in the smoking room, which had Sky telly and a coffee machine. And loads of fit lasses, and I was 23 and... oh, crap, I just dribbled...
              His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                #47
                Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                My first contract was creating a d/b in Lotus123 (DOS version). My first renewal was to convert it into Access. To start with they didn't have a spare desk so I worked on a laptop in the smoking room, which had Sky telly and a coffee machine. And loads of fit lasses, and I was 23 and... oh, crap, I just dribbled...
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                  My first contract was creating a d/b in Lotus123 (DOS version). My first renewal was to convert it into Access. To start with they didn't have a spare desk so I worked on a laptop in the smoking room, which had Sky telly and a coffee machine.
                  Something like this, I presume....?

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                    #49
                    Originally posted by greenlake View Post
                    Something like this, I presume....?
                    Not quite, but I did find out later it cost £4k, and only had a b/w screen (which didn't matter as I was working in DOS). Happy days...
                    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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                      #50
                      Originally posted by greenlake View Post
                      Something like this, I presume....?

                      God, I remember something like one of those, an Osborne I think it was, in one of my first IT jobs back in around 1980.

                      Cost around £20,000 as I recall, even back then!
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