History (was Re: OT: Question re: SCO Use)

CDAY gliderman.one at verizon.net
Tue Jun 21 13:57:12 PDT 2005



Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Bill Campbell (Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:20:27 -0700):
> [...]
> 
>>There's some fairly ancient history involved here.  Filepro was born
>>years ago as profile II on the Radio Shack Model II (actually profile
>>something on the Radio Shack Model I/III/IV).  It then morphed into
>>Profile-16 Plus on Radio Shack Xenix, then to FilePro on non-Tandy
>>systems.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Although there was a Profile for the I/III/IV, they were not made by
> SCC.  We did eventually have a Profile III Plus, as I recall, but the
> "regular" Profile for I/III/IV was a different product.
> 
> The filePro we know and love today started out on the Model II as
> "Electric File Clerk", and first released by Tandy as "Profile II".
> 

On my RS model III and IV I had Profile III+.
The RS instruction book was a padded, brown 3-ring notebook.

I am thinking it was filePro III+  for the RS 2000 ?
Then, plain filePro for IBM compatibles,
Then, filePro Plus with version 4.0?

Charles Day


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