[DXBase] DXBase 3.1

[Art Searle W2NRA]

Hi Andy,

Yea, I know what you mean.  And before DXBase the
software I used was ARRL Log copywrite 1977 and I
was so disappointed when they went to ARRL Log
copywrite 1988.  The screen, ah, PAGE looked so
cluttered with separate fields, ah, COLUMNS for
'Date' and 'Time'.  And I missed the separate
fields, ah, COLUMNS for 'Station Called' and
'Called By'. Searching for QSOs was very slow
on both versions of this software; moving my
ruler down the screens, ah, PAGES was very
slow.  Oh the tedium of paper log software.
And the I/O devices, ah, pens and pencils, were
rather slow and sometimes difficult to read
DXBase 3.1 was way ahead of either of these.

Art

W2NRA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew J. O'Brien" <obrienaj@netsync.net>
To: <dxbase@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:55 AM
Subject: [DXBase] DXBase 3.1


> I don't mean to be unkind to all the efforts
over the years....I was
> wondering if anyone would agree with me that the
best version of DXbase was
> 3.1 ?  Maybe it was because of the newness of PC
logging but I still fondly
> recall the thrill of first operating with 3.1
and I still feel the display
> is better than any logging program today
(including current DXB).
>
> Andy K3UK