Subj : GWBASIC
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Nov 14 2025 17:23:49


>   >Did your 3.3 ITT books come with the same color covers?

> No, they were white and came as 3 or 4 fairly thick soft cover
> books in a sleeve that held them all - Plus 3 or 4 5.25" disks.

>   >The builder included DOS5.0 and WIN 3.1 FLOPPY DISKS when it was
>   >delivered to me

> I never bought books again after that time, mostly finding docs
> online or what came with any computers I bought.

> On my early computers, not only did I not get books because I
> was building the computers myself, but there was no 'online'
> to get document copies there..   The good old days..   B)

> ---
>  * SLMR Rob  * A nudist wedding makes the best man easy to identify.


I started using computers later than you did, it was 1984 for me.

In an earlier message of yoursyou wrote about writing software at a Company.
While reading , it made me think of oneof my suscesses at work.

A programmer from the Main Office wrote a Menu to help everyone use the
computer to do things like Sendinf Reports,. Getting Daily Reports, using Word
Processor etc.

There was a Afternoon report we had been printing every day that had River
Forecast for the entire Ohio River.
A few lines in the middle  of it showed the prediction for our area.

I added a entry to the Menu file that would Save the file as a temporiary file,
then using the FIND command find the info pertainingto our place and PRINT#4
onlu those lines to our Dot Matrix Printer.

Instead of many pages being printed as the data came in (and the noise), the
printer printed a few lines quickly. TADA!

I didn't remove the Menu Option to get the Report, I just added another entry
to the menu.
At that time I was using a DOS pc at home and had learned enuf to be DANGEROUS.
Ed
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