[Boatanchors] on topic, looking for software

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Having been a DB programmer for 40+ years, this subject is an ancient pet 
peave of mine.  The subject of inventorying our radio collections has come up 
literally hundreds of times over that 40+ years and for about the past 15 years, 
instantly everyone starts blathering about something they've done with Excel.  
Before that it was Lotus 123 or a few other long ago and now defunct 
spreadsheet programs.  Spreadsheets are moderately good for number crunching.  They 
are basically worthless for database use.  

There are, if you don't own a large mainframe, two major database packages 
left on the market,  both of which run on Windows PC platforms.  dBase and 
Access.  dBase is moderately expensive but clearly superior to Access.  Both have 
steep learning curves and no one is going to write a usable ap from scratch in 
either one in a day or even a month.

Sorry, I said it was a professional pet peave.

Robert Downs - Houston
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