Oh yeah, my non-programmer non-scientific dad and the 12 years old me managed to do everything he needed with dBase III + (plus occasionally Works or something

Oh yeah, my non-programmer non-scientific dad and the 12 years old me managed to do everything he needed with dBase III + (plus occasionally Works or something like that, I can't remember). Most of the time, dBase was on. It was easy to build a database, to build interfaces, to configure views and reports, print listings and labels. The resulting interface was also easy and fast to use, moreover there was no distraction. So not only it did the job, but it was very efficient at it: I mean, one could say "does the job" of anything like a chisel + stone tablet, but in this case it was close to optimal efficiency.