Newbie Here!
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:23 pm
After a seemingly endless search to find a truly active and civil QB group I have finally found it!
My primary interest in QB, besides the fact that it's just plain fun, is to write COM programs to
communicate with the RS232 port. Most of them will be for I/O control for my electronics projects.
My complete QB4.5 package was given to me some 8 years ago by my wife, who hardly used it, or so
she says!?!?. She's a recently retired COBOL Programmer Analyst, with over 33 years of combined
COBOL, Fortran, Assembler, Pascal, CICS, EasyTrieve, ET+, NCR Basic, RPG, Crystal, and whatever! She
even worked with languages that had seemingly nothing on the screen but Hexadecimal data. She says I
was looking at a DUMP??? You could go blind looking at it! Regardless of all that background..it's for
naught. She won't help me one iota! She says she doesn't want to ever see another line of code....EVER!
I promise that I will be grateful (and say so) for any information that I extract from this group. I'm a
neophyte QBer, and I realize that you folks are obviously quite advanced. I will do my damndest not to
sound like an idiot that just stumbled in here.
BTW, this is my second post of this message. The first one never made it?
Looking forward to some learning.
CDRIVE,
Delray Beach ,Florida
No! I'm not retired. I'm an EE and I'm still working.
My primary interest in QB, besides the fact that it's just plain fun, is to write COM programs to
communicate with the RS232 port. Most of them will be for I/O control for my electronics projects.
My complete QB4.5 package was given to me some 8 years ago by my wife, who hardly used it, or so
she says!?!?. She's a recently retired COBOL Programmer Analyst, with over 33 years of combined
COBOL, Fortran, Assembler, Pascal, CICS, EasyTrieve, ET+, NCR Basic, RPG, Crystal, and whatever! She
even worked with languages that had seemingly nothing on the screen but Hexadecimal data. She says I
was looking at a DUMP??? You could go blind looking at it! Regardless of all that background..it's for
naught. She won't help me one iota! She says she doesn't want to ever see another line of code....EVER!
I promise that I will be grateful (and say so) for any information that I extract from this group. I'm a
neophyte QBer, and I realize that you folks are obviously quite advanced. I will do my damndest not to
sound like an idiot that just stumbled in here.
BTW, this is my second post of this message. The first one never made it?
Looking forward to some learning.
CDRIVE,
Delray Beach ,Florida
No! I'm not retired. I'm an EE and I'm still working.