Aaaaahhh!

Over here we do have old apps, but they would run on mainframe or midrange, not on Windows PCs. I see very little bespoke software that has been developed on a Windows platform, other than Excel, Access and SQL.

My best claim to fame (down in London.....UK, not Ontario) was supporting an app written in Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS 3.1 and 3.4. Yep you needed to load 3.1 and 3.4 to get this hybrid baby to work I had it on a Digital Venturis P/I 75MHz with 48Mb of RAM (total waste I know........it was the crappiest machine I could find that hadn't been thrown out...........and those memory sticks on the window ledge........)

I did use it to support a couple of Office 4.3 (Access 2.0) apps until I replaced them.

OK. I don't believe in replacement for the hell of it, but if you have ever tried to convert Access 2 to Access 8 you will know that there is a time and place?..............preferably before you joined the company?