Initial development projects at college

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As we were on a Computer related career, many classes required from us to develop a computer system. The most common language for development was FoxPro. Sometimes for graphical applications we used Visual Basic, but only for easy projects; I started using it from version 3. At that time MSDOS was the most common Operating System, but graphical applications were starting to get used.

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