It was not written in ms-dos.
Not to pick nits, because it obviously was not written in DOS as DOS is an
operating system not a language, it was written to run under DOS. I have the
original program & database around here somewhere. It was named Data
TrainIndex, and as I recall, was written by a fella in Texas. He also sold a
program called TraInventory, a collection inventory program. Here is the
actual Kalmbach news release from 2010:
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To our readers:?
The advancement in Internet browser technology has created an insurmountable
problem for the Model Train Index, which has been a fixture on Trains.com
for many years.?
The information in the Model Train Index and its integrated software
originally were written in ___MS-DOS___ language 20 years ago by a train
hobbyist on his PC as a personal project. It was not designed for the
Internet and the software is unique to the index.?
Kalmbach Publishing Co. purchased the index and its software many years ago.
We created a website interface for the index and made the index a featured
part of the Trains.com website.?
Today, the progression of technologies on the Internet and the antiquated
software of the Model Train Index have intersected to the point that we can
no longer offer the index to our website visitors because we can no longer
keep the index free of viruses or other even more significant Internet
security risks.?
The index software cannot be rewritten to update its security level, nor is
there any method of transferring the index text information to a more modern
software platform since the design of the index software and the index text
information are integral to each other.?
Because of these issues, we have reluctantly removed the index from
Trains.com.
