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jim_lawless 66 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The program is the database is the interface

This reminds me of home computing in the late 70's when we used to keep our "database" info in DATA statements embedded in a given BASIC program.

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julesallen 65 days ago [–]

Glad I'm not the only lunatic who would do something like this. At least until I got my paws on dBASE.

I worked with somebody with your name in the early 90s on a Sequent/Dynix system, that wasn't you by chance was it?

jim_lawless 65 days ago | [–]

Nope. Not me.

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