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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
June 1997
The L.A Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox Developers Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with FoxPro.

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Out and About (Con’t from Page 1)
excellent evening of tips and tricks at our last meeting, as well as a little bit of humor. By popular request, here is the “Top 10” list:
Top Ten Things That Would Be Different if Microsoft
Started Building Cars
1.
A particular model year of car wouldn’t be available until after that year
instead of before it.
2.
Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you’d have to buy a
new car.
3.
Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and you’d have to
restart it. For some strange reason, you’d just accept this.
4.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
a Car 95 or a Car NT. But then you’d have to buy more seats.
5.
Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was powered by the sun,
twice as reliable, and five times as fast - but it would only run on five
percent of the roads.
6.
The oil, engine, gas, and alternator warning lights would be replaced
with a single “General Car Fault” warning light.
7.
People would get excited about the “new” features in Microsoft cars
forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for
years.
8.
We’d all have to switch to Microsoft gas.
9.
The U.S. Government would be getting subsidies from an automaker
instead of giving them.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same-size buff.

[Ed. Note: Just to let Drew off the hook here, and to avoid any detrimental publicity for him, the same list was forwarded to me from another indWidual living in New York. <g>J

Since We Last Met

Bill Gates donated $1 million to the District of Columbia library system, which is so financially strapped that patrons have been asked to donate magazines and books. The gift will allow the library system to set up computer centers in all 26 branches, The donation is one of the largest of a $17 million Libraries Online initiative launched by Microsoft. The program is now in 45 library systems in the United States and Canada.

U.S. Robotics said it plans to run field tests of its cable modem technology with two cable TV systems in Indianapolis and St. Louis. U.S. Robotics’ system allows computer users to receive data from the Internet over their cable TV lines and send data back to the Internet via telephone lines. Initial test base will be 230,000.

Computer industry captains called on President Clinton to drop efforts to (Con’t, page 5)
Help Wanted...
Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC, is looking for people proficient in FPW 2.6 with some basic knowledge of VFP. Excellent working conditions with a chance to be in on the latest FoxPro-related technologies. Need someone capable of “hitting the bricks running”. Call Mike Meer or Barry R. Lee, 800/499-6237, or e-mail us at brlee@mesllc.com.
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