Access 1.0 was the first piece of software I paid for out of my own pocket. I'd been doing BASIC, VB, Pascal and Assembly for a few years then, so getting into

Access 1.0 was the first piece of software I paid for out of my own pocket. I'd been doing BASIC, VB, Pascal and Assembly for a few years then, so getting into JET and Access was easy. And the ease blew my mind. Before Access there was Borland Paradox, which was (if memory serves) the only database engine you could call from VB. It was really brittle though, which made the ease of using the JET engine all the more amazing.