card index style database

Are they still around for Windows? sure i could use the database in Libre office, but all I want is something simple to put the name of the coffee bean and roaster and what grind I use for it, searchable via name.

Seems a bit much, setting up a database in Libre office just for that.

thanks peeps.

What sort of front end do you need for it? If it is just for you and you don't need anything fancy then could you just use a spreadsheet - use a row for each entry and use the search function or filters to find the record you want?

In reply to a post by ian72:

What sort of front end do you need for it? If it is just for you and you don't need anything fancy then could you just use a spreadsheet - use a row for each entry and use the search function or filters to find the record you want?

That may be the best way to be honest. it does seem strange what was once a thing on computers like the CBM64, Speccy and even early P.Cs, don't seem to exist any more.
i will try your idea, thanks.

If you can find an installation of NT 3.51 then the old windows cardfile works on 64bit Win 10. It is a completely propitiatory data format that nothing else opens.

It has to be NT to get the 32bit version as the windows 3.11 version was 16bit code.

I think they mostly disappeared because people moved to Excel or Access type solutions.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

If you can find an installation of NT 3.51 then the old windows cardfile works on 64bit Win 10. It is a completely propitiatory data format that nothing else opens.

It has to be NT to get the 32bit version as the windows 3.11 version was 16bit code.

thanks, but I don't think I am going to go to that length.

Saying that I suppose i could get an old 386 machine
never had one, would be nice to have a muck around with one

In reply to a post by ian72:

I think they mostly disappeared because people moved to Excel or Access type solutions.

Acess is just over the top for what I need, i did look at Libre office base,
what I want is to just be able to search the grind size for my coffee beans, at the moment they are on the cards that comes with the beans.

So Roaster, blend, grind size and maybe weight of coffee. I know that it is not always spot on from one pack of beans to another, but it is close enough to start with.

i have not tried the spreadsheet thing yet, i thought about a note-taking app, like one note, but not one note.
i looked at two, Note ledge and Joplin, Joplin seems better as notes are searchable, but I can't find where it stores the files. Note Ledge is great in that there is so much to it, you can draw, add audio and that sort of thing, but maybe over the top, also i can't find anyway of search through the notes, you can search for a notebook, but not inside it.

this is the thing that annoys me, simple software that works have gone to be replaced by bloat and cloudy stuff, not all of us want to stick everything onto the cloud.

How about a bog standard paper address book, for the indexed pages it provides?

Edited by pluralist (Tue 10-Aug-21 11:58:40)

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Saying that I suppose i could get an old 386 machine
never had one, would be nice to have a muck around with one

Back in the day (1992) I had an Acer 386sx with a whopping 4MB or RAM. As I recall it was socket upgradable to a a 486sx. Steady now! 🤣

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Back in the day (1992) I had an Acer 386sx with a whopping 4MB or RAM. As I recall it was socket upgradable to a a 486sx. Steady now! 🤣

Wow. I used an 8086 but my first owned PC was a 386sx with 1MB of RAM, with a 20 megabyte hard drive and EGA graphics. Ran Windows 3.0 on my greyscale monitor okay.