James Rice   
   10:02 PM (2 minutes ago)   
   to comp.sys.tandy   
      
   Yes!  If you could, I would be so grateful. Please let me know what the   
   shipping charges would be or any other expenses. I can pay via Cash.app,   
   Paypal or Venmo.   
      
   Oh yes, I remember how expensive software was.  I bought my first MS-DOS Tandy   
   1000A with the extra floppy, CM-4 monitor, DMP-130 printer, Friday!, MS-DOS   
   2.1T (T for Tandy) and a copy of Star Accounting Partner II and financed it   
   all through Tandy    
   Leasing. A few months later I bought more RAM, the 10MB hard drive and   
   controller card because when I set the Star Accounting package running to sort   
   entries from the two floppy drives I had to start it on Friday afternoon at   
   quitting time and pray the    
   power didn't glitch so it would be finished on Monday morning!  The hard drive   
   brought that down to about 45 minutes.   
      
   I still have a Tandy 1000HD and a Tandy1000SX.  The 1000SX is equipped with a   
   Tandy 20MD hard card, 640K ram, NEC V-20 processor chip, 8087 math   
   coprocessor, 5-1/4" and 3-1/2" floppy drives, Tandy SmartWatch, Tandy mouse   
   card, and a PCT 286-Express 80286    
   card with a 80287 math coprocessor.  I have a CM-11 higher resolution CGA   
   monitor. It's as maxed out as I could take in back in the 1980's.  For a while   
   I had installed an Intel EtherNet Express 8/16 card and could actually surf   
   the net with a text    
   browser through my home network. I was using a TCP/IP stack derived from   
   Microsoft's Workgroup Companion for DOS which was designed to let DOS machines   
   share files with systems running Windows for Workgroups 3.1.   
      
   I'll send you a private email with address details.   
      
   Thank you!   
      
   James Rice   
      
      
   On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 9:36:58 PM UTC-5, Gina Thomas Patterson   
   (Ginaburningsky) wrote:   
   > On Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 8:29:05 AM UTC-7, james...@gmail.com   
   wrote:    
   > > Does anyone have a copy of Friday! by Ashton Tate or know where a copy may   
   be archived?. I purchased a copy when I bought my first Tandy 1000A in 1985.   
   It was dBase II based with a runtime engine and was actually pretty cool for   
   it's time. I ran my    
   inventory for my electrical contracting business on it and even wrote a   
   compiled Basic bridge program to download a text file from a Tandy Model 100   
   into the Friday database. I carried the Model 100 with me and used the barcode   
   wand to scan parts as I    
   pulled them off the service truck in the field. I was working on a Turbo   
   Pascal rewrite of that program when Windows hit the scene and I stopped   
   coding.    
   > >    
   > > Friday! was distributed on 5-1/4" floppies and I think there were two   
   discs in the box. It was sold back when Tandy was copying IBM with all the   
   cute hard backed binders in the slipcover cases.    
   > >    
   > > James   
   > Hi James - I believe I have my original Friday! complete with the manual &   
   the whole works. I actually loved that program, I ran a bulk-mail processing   
   business out of my house for 18 years and used that program - it never failed   
   me. My "binder" the    
   discs and manual came in was like a grayish color, the manual slid out and was   
   put together similar to a 3-ring binder set-up, very durable.    
   >    
   > At the time I bought that program in 1983, I was pregnant with my 4th child,   
   had not been in business over 3 years and was a woman working at home - all 3   
   big XXXX's for women in those days. Tandy financed my computers (do you   
   remember how expensive    
   that program was?????) the software and a huge daisy wheel printer that   
   printed so many labels it rocked my dining room, we put our 4 kids through   
   school, my sister's 3 and we all survived.    
   >    
   > Are you looking for a copy of the program? Let me know, I'll try to dig it   
   out.   
      
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