Some of you are old enough to remember a time when the main word processor, spreadsheet and personal database programs were NOT Word, Excel and Access. Thirty years ago, dBASE ruled IBM PC compatibles ...

dBASE II was the first version of dBASE, a 16-bit command-driven program for CP/M and subsequently DOS. In 1984, dBASE III upgraded the DOS version with more features and support for larger databases.

A relational database management (DBMS) and object-oriented application development system for Windows from dBase LLC, Binghamton, NY. dBASE Plus reads and writes natively to dBASE, Paradox, Access, ...

Ok, that report is due soon, so I'm going to fire up dBASE to run some reports, export the data into Lotus 1-2-3 and summarize everything with WordPerfect--while ...