Visual Basic version 3

[stevechase]

Hi all

Ok, I know it is really geeky, but is there anyone out there that is/was a programmer and would know how I could go about getting a copy of VB3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers

Steve

 

[AlanUK]

Is it particularly VB 3 you need? I suspect Microsoft have sunsetted this as a product as it's quite old. You stand a better chance of getting hold of VB 6.

Alan.

 

[AndRu]

I know that this months (June '06) Computer Shopper has a cover CD with a whle bunch of M$ VB applications, dotNET, VB etc - all 'express' versions of #6 I think.

I don't know about getting hold of VB3 though - it's very long in the tooth now, at least in software terms!

 

[stevechase]

Hi again

Thanks for the replies, but it is the Visual Basic Profes Version 3 I need from about 1992, I knows it old, but I cant open my fproject using any thing else. I would convert it to VB6, but I still have to get to it with VB3 first.

Thanks anyway.

AndRu, NY and WDW, we had this idea (how people laughed when I suggested driving from one to another) How are you doing it and how are you finding the prices?

Cheers
Steve
stevechase@blueyonder.co.uk

 

[AndRu]

AndRu, NY and WDW, we had this idea (how people laughed when I suggested driving from one to another) How are you doing it and how are you finding the prices?

In a word, expensive. It's not too much of a flying problem as going into NYC and out of Orlando isn't a problem with Virgin.

We looked at internal flights from NYC to Orlando and these were very expensive. The problem is comparrison, you can fly from the UK to eastern europe (one way) for £15 or less if you book in advance. A simple trip, albeit a long one, down the US eastern seaboard for 6 of us costs about £800.

If we drive (which is possible) picking up a car in NYC and dropping off in Orlando is again possible as the price isn't that much different from a standard 3 week hire. However, it would be the sheer scale of the drive which, with kids, would need at least two stop overs. I personally can drive for hours but the kids will need breaks.

The final and best solution (at least I thought it would be) is to go via train. There is a train from NYC down to Orlando but it would cost more than £2,000 to use it! It's a 24 hour journey and there are sleepers but we'd need three of them and they're very expensive. You could have seats which are cheaper but it's still expensive.

So, as my signature says - planning underway and likely to continue!

Good luck with finding VB3

 

[stevechase]

Hi again AndRu

I found some of the costs to be similar to you, however, the chepest flights from NY to ORL in total were about 300.00 (2 x adults, 3 kids) cant for the life of me remember the airline, Delta maybe.

The train I thought would be quite exciting for the kids, but that is even more with the sleeper.

The car hire seemed another good way, I'll think you will find (according to multimap) it is approx 1000 miles from NY to International Drive, but you hit a snag when you want to pick a car up in NY and drop it off somewhere else (other than the pick up point) you get charged extra for a one way hire. 2 overnight stops would do I think, I have emailed NYorkers who have driven it solid just swapping drivers (and Pee stops) and its about 17 hours.

Good luck and if you remember, post on here I'd like to see how you get on, we are deifnatley going in July 07, just a matter of how.

Cheers

Steve