Re: card catalog program?

On Oct 13, 1:04 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
SlickRCBD wrote:
magnusfalkirk wrote:

On Oct 9, 5:45 pm, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you could locate a copy of the NAUG Home disk 1 there is a copy of
a database template on the called Bibliography that is designed to run
in Appleworks and let you keep track of your home library.

Dean

I managed to locate a couple old "The AppleWorks User Group" shrunk
disk files that have databases related to book libraries. I can e-mail
you the copy of the disk image if you'd like and then your friend can
look at the templates and see which one he'd prefer to use. One is
definitely more elaborate than the other but they both look like
they'll do the job.

Dean
Apple II Forever!

The thing I'm thinking of is that IIRC, AW 2.X only had 56K or so
available for user files on his system, and AW3.0 had even less. I have
no clue what AW4 or AW5 had. What I do remember is having difficulity
once loading a data base once on a friend's Apple IIe that I had no
problem with on my Apple IIGS due to the fact that the IIGS had at least
768K of RAM at the time. I'll tell him, though he might want to ask
about MS-DOS  solutions if there are no specialized A2 programs to be
found on the 'net.

You can go for speed, by putting all the records into RAM, or very
large capacity, by putting the records on hard disk.

I'd be surprised if you needed more capacity than can be supported
by Appleworks with a 1MB RAMworks-style memory card and AE's Appleworks
"Super Expander" or a later version that increased limits to match the
available RAM.

AUX RAM expander cards are still readily available for //e's.


Ooh, wonder how many could fit in memory for a standard-size database
for a book catalog!
Brings back memories of TI's "Personal Record Keeping" POS, in which
it stored everything in the 16k RAM (probably had about 14K free for
the "db").

Generally, something like a book catalog program would allow you to
have anywhere from 100 to 300 pages in memory at once, depending on
the # of fields and field-lengths... (it had a max of 15 fields and
field lengths were limited to 15 characters!)
.

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