I remember growing up receiving 3 channels on TV but still had bettter shows to watch than today on a 100+ channel system. And didn't have to pay a dime. Beat that.

Back in the days of Bozo's Big Top and Romper Room.

And remember that the $1,000.00 20 MB hard drive was bought with money worth lots more than today.

I'm having a ball with my new $599.00 computer. I've successfully installed dBase VII and am able to update my earthquake data base. I had a lot of workarounds as the data wouldn't import correctly. I'm pasting each days earthquake events into a cuteHTML file and saving as a text. Next into Excel which recognized the file as a tab delimited file and saving the Excel spreadsheet as a CSV file which I append to the dBase VII file. This earthquake database is the data base I started and posted about while we were waiting for the release of SCP last summer, remember the Things to do while waiting for SCP thread?.

Actually I go all the way back to a Sinclair(?) 1KB connected to a TV. Fun to run a hello on the TV via a loop in basic. I then went big time with a C64 and tape drive, next floppy disks, $40.00 for my first box of 10. Even on the C64 I maintained a database of hundreds of square dance calls as I was working my way through club level, advanced level and working on challenge level four when I burnt out. Sometime during my rise in the world of challenge level square dancing I graduated to the 30 pound portable compaq computer and the 20 MB hard hard drive.

Many computers later and so much to learn. The new computer email program is neat but will not import my address box so.....I sent an email to most of the people in my address book and myself. I then added each recipient as a contact. Well, enough of this trip down computer memory land and back to work.