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    From Manuel Maseda@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 07:39:23 2023
    Does anyone know if a copy of Vulcan DBMS is archived anywhere in the internet? Vulcan was written by Wayne Ratliff while working at the Jet Propulsion Lab. It was later purchased by George Tate of Ashton Tate and was renamed Dbase II. I have an
    original licensed copy I purchased directly from Wayne on a 8 inch CP/M floppy. Before I go through the trouble to create a setup to read the floppy I wanted to see if it has already been archived.

    Manuel

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  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 16:26:56 2023
    Does anyone know if a copy of Vulcan DBMS is archived anywhere in the internet? Vulcan was written by Wayne Ratliff while working at the Jet Propulsion Lab. It was later purchased by George Tate of Ashton Tate
    and was renamed Dbase II. I have an original licensed copy I purchased directly from Wayne on a 8 inch CP/M floppy. Before I go through the trouble to create a setup to read the floppy I wanted to see if it has already been archived.

    I think version 1.5 is in the rlee archives.

    De

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  • From Manuel Maseda@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 11:40:33 2023
    Thanks !! That’s the exact version I was looking for. Now I just need to locate the documentation.

    Manuel

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  • From Paul Richards@21:1/5 to Manuel Maseda on Thu Feb 23 18:15:04 2023
    On Wednesday, 22 February 2023 at 06:40:35 UTC+11, Manuel Maseda wrote:
    Thanks !! That’s the exact version I was looking for. Now I just need to locate the documentation.

    Manuel

    As DBase II was effectively Vulcan rebadged you might find the DB II user manual helpful:

    eaw.app › Downloads › Manuals › CPM › dBASE_II_Users_Guide_Feb83.pdf

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  • From Manuel Maseda@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 24 06:33:20 2023
    Thanks,

    That got me going. It’s interesting that the program was just a single .com file. Checking back at the old ads in Byte Magazine looked like I paid $490 for it in 1979 dollars. Hate to think how much that was in 2023 dollars. I remember writing a very
    large inventory management program with it. I later ported the app to Image1000 DBMS on a HP-1000 computer.

    Manuel

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