zoomracks造句

• "' Zoomracks II "', introduced in 1987, added support for report generation and some basic mathematics.
• Unlike similar database programs of the era, Zoomracks did not support different types of data internally; everything was represented as text.
• Zoomracks, introduced in 1985, represented data in a form that was visually represented by filing cards, known as " QUICKCARD " s.
• In Zoomracks II a report ( possibly only one per rack ? ) could be defined, laid out as needed complete with headers and footers.
• Zoomracks II also added a rudimentary " macro " system that allowed the user to assign a series of commands to a letter on the keyboard.
• In order to extract a certain subset of the information in a rack and lay it out for printing, the original Zoomracks required the user to cut and paste the desired cards into a new rack.
• Zoomracks was well received and won " Best Database " by Compute ! magazine in January 1989 . This does not appear to have translated into widespread use or sales, however, although much of this is likely due to Atari's deteriorating sales in the late 1980s.
• Zoomracks'author, Paul Heckel ( formerly of Xerox PARC ), received US Patent # 4486857 for " " Display system for the suppression and regeneration of characters in a series of fields in a stored record " ", describing the basic on-screen operation of the system.