From: Rob.Waite@f208.n326.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Waite)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.comp.literacy
Subject: Re: Business Project
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 10:28:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:326/208 - Street Corner BBS, Bath ME

RD> Hello...
RD> Could someone pleeeeaaassseee respond!  We desperately need a grade
RD> for are computer class.  We are three students at Sarasota High School
RD> and would like to talk to someone to talk with through the modem.  We
RD> have worked with a variety of software Turbo Pascal, WordStar,
RD> WordPerfect, Microsoft Works, Lotus 1-2-3.  Harvard Graphics, Word for
RD> Windows.  Could you please respond ASAP!!!!!! We all are juniors and
RD> 16 years of age.  What programs have you worked with?  I hope you
RD> return our message soooooooooon.
RD>

    I must have missed the first message.... What do you want to know?
    My system is a NEC PowerMate '286 runing at 10 mhs, 90meg Seagate
    IDE HD, 1 meg 120ns DRAM on the motherboard and a AST RamPage '286
    expantion board w/2 megs 120ns DRAM, Floppys are 1-1.2meg and
    1-1.44meg, ports are 2s/1p/1g... The modem is a SupraModem 2400.  I
    run this setup under dos 5.0, with DESQview as the multitasking
    environment (I have run windoz, but I don't like GUI's, and I need
    real multi-tasking ability.) and QRAM as the memory manager.  I
    don't use dos buffers, as I have found HyperDisk to be a far
    supeiror cache to anything I have tryed to date.... (640k in
    expanded memory.... reduses disk accses time like you wouldent
    belive...).  As for software... I use WordPerfect for my word
    proseser, as it seems to be the best for what I need to do
    (Technical papers within the environmental feild), and it has a
    powerful macro programing languge.  I have used many other wp's but
    I keep coming back to WP51.  For a spreedsheat, I use Quattro Pro
    4.0, partly because I also has a powerful macro languge, partly
    because I belive it is a more powerful spreedsheat, and partly
    because I need the quality of graphics that it produses.  I have
    used Lotus, As-Easy-As, and SuperCal, but I prefer QP.  For a
    Database I use Paradox 3.5.  It is without a doubt the most
    powerful and easy to use database progran I have ever used.
    Paradox and QP are both Borland product's, and use the same engen
    to drive them.  I can start either one and have acses to the other,
    all in one DV window, have WP runing in another window, and then
    link the 2 for spreadsheet/database links to WP.  When you combine
    this with the macro langugas that come with each progam (Paradox
    has it's own programing languge, just like dBase does...), you have
    a setup that is more powerful than any "Intagated" program could
    hope to be.  I use Qmodem for a com program, also under DV.  I am
    in the proses of trying to teach myself to program in 'C' at this
    point.  I don't do any DTP, so I can't help there....  If you want
    any more info, feel free to ask.  In any even, let me know if you
    receve this, as part of your problem may be in the system.


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