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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.
LA Fox Address
LA
Fox
Barry R. Lee
714/375-3300
P.O. Box 6624
Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624
LA Fox Board of Directors
Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor
Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs
Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership
Chuck
Williams, President Emeritus
George Dvorak
Bill Seldon
Mike Cummings
Michael Meer
George Porter
LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in
Southern California. The newsletter contains regular
columns and
articles from other user groups.
XPro User Group
Randy Unruh
310/399-9159
2210 Wilshire Blvd.
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#161
Santa Monica, CA 90403
OC FoxPro Developers Group
Mike Vincent
(714)970-9147
MembershiplSubscription
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Develop-
ers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox
Developer Newsletter, is $45.
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five owners.
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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