Oh, man. Informix. Can't believe that thing is still around! I wrote a customer and subscription tracking system for a flower appreciation society in the 1980's

Oh, man. Informix. Can't believe that thing is still around! I wrote a customer and subscription tracking system for a flower appreciation society in the 1980's using Informix and Altos Xenix. Honestly the part that surprised me about all that was they could actually afford the system and my time to write the software. Surely they fixed it later, but at the time Informix could not join between two tables and allow updates to the second table. I could never convince the customer to go to a maintenance screen and update customer records because they wanted everything updateable on one page. So I was forced to change the table layout and main screen to hold three rows of history for each customer, and the flower society ladies would laboriously retype the information as needed to add a new row. As in manually copy row two to row three, copy row one to row two, replace information in row one. Whatever was previously in row three was just lost. But they were happy because customers only got updated once a year or so and printing newsletter labels every month was so much faster than using a Selectric. I guess I learned early on giving the customer what they want is defined by them, not by you.