On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 1:39:38 PM UTC-8, Clipper_Lives wrote:
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> These are just a few names. I sure that are plenty more. So if you
> know anything about these or other persons that work on Clipper. Then lets play "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?"
You've never heard of me. But, I'm here because I found out I could run Lotus 123 2.01, dBase III+, and WordPerfect 5.1 in Dosbox in Windows 10. Wow, almost 40 years later!
This motivated me to rummage in the basement and I found original 5.25" disks for Summer '87, Clipper 5.01, dBXL, Arago, UI Programmer, Blinker, Funcky, dClip, Gensys, SuperLib, dBase III+, WP5.1, etc. Found some of them in 3.5 inch diskettes too. Also, found two old laptops, but unfortunately neither had 5.25 inch drives and only 3.5 inch drives. :-(
I used to run a Clipper specific bulletin board system in the 1980's called The Clipboard BBS which at that time I thought had the biggest collection of dBase related programs online. I'm regretting that I didn't preserve that box with the BBS intact. I should have kept it and booted it up every few years. I had tons of files. If memory serves me right I think I was running it using PCBoard BBS software and Desqview running on top of either MS-DOS 6.22, DR-DOS, or OS/2.
I saw a few old PC parts in the basement too including a loose HD 5.25 floppy drive. I'm tempted to build a DOS PC and see if I can rebuild my old BBS. I'm also wondering if I can still remember how to compile Clipper source files. I thought I had an IDE of sorts back then where you can set break points and trace points buy I've forgotten the name of the program.
After my Clipper and SysOp days, I ran a Novell network running another legacy platform called Advanced Revelation (AREV) for a Fortune 100 company. Now that I'm retired from IT management, I'm very tempted to pick up building that PC with the BBS as a hobby. But I'm not sure if it'll work though without POTS line (plain old telephone service) connected to the Xircom modems in the laptops. Maybe I'll read some old dBase, 123, WP books for fun. Amazon here I come!