CP/M... oh my! Cut my teeth on T.E.I. computers with CP/M. *sigh*
good times!
~mark petryk
~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com
On 8/5/24 14:29, Michael Hendry wrote:
Are you a genealogy addict too, John?
I built a Nascom 2 Z80 machine in 1979, with Microsoft BASIC and a cassette
tape drive, and by the time my dad retired in 1981 I had installed disc drives
and had managed to get CP/M running on it, including a copy of dBase II. By
this time he was finding the management of his data very cumbersome, and was in
touch with the manager of the mainframe belonging to the local council in
Morayshire, which he was allowed to use out-of-ours to process the punched
cards he stored his family tree on. I wrote dBase programs to enter, store and
process data in the same format as the punched cards, showed my father how to
use it, and left him in charge of feeding the goldfish and other pets while we
were away with the kids in the Mediterranean. By the time we got back he’d got
hundreds of individuals into the database, but the goldfish died! By the time
of his death in 2002 he’d gone from CP/M on Nascom, to CP/M on a machine called
Matmos, and finally to Relativity on MS/DOS, from which I extracted the files
in GEDCOM format to upload and manage in LifeLines.
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