<s>
filePro	B-Application
is	O
a	O
proprietary	O
DBMS	B-General_Concept
and	O
RAD	O
system	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Howard	O
Wolowitz	O
as	O
The	O
Electric	O
File	O
Clerk	O
in	O
1978	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
there	O
was	O
a	O
Profile	O
for	O
the	O
TRS-80	B-Device
model	I-Device
I	I-Device
,	O
model	O
III	O
and	O
model	O
IV	O
,	O
these	O
were	O
unrelated	O
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Today	O
's	O
filePro	B-Application
started	O
out	O
on	O
the	O
Model	O
II	O
and	O
was	O
first	O
released	O
by	O
Tandy	O
as	O
"	O
Profile	O
II	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
product	O
no	O
longer	O
ships	O
with	O
a	O
printed	O
user	O
manual	O
;	O
however	O
,	O
there	O
is	O
a	O
manual	O
available	O
online	O
at	O
fpTech	B-Application
's	O
website	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
1978	O
Howard	O
Wolowitz	O
develops	O
Electric	O
File	O
Clerk	O
for	O
the	O
TRS-80	B-Device
Model	O
II	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
1983	O
Profile	O
16	O
is	O
released	O
for	O
the	O
TRS-80	B-Device
Model	O
16	O
running	O
Xenix	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
filePro	B-Application
16	O
and	O
filePro	B-Application
16	O
Plus	O
are	O
released	O
by	O
The	O
small	O
Computer	O
Company	O
for	O
non-Tandy	O
computers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
1986	O
Version	O
3.0	O
released	O
for	O
both	O
filePro	B-Application
16	O
and	O
filePro	B-Application
16	O
Plus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
was	O
the	O
last	O
version	O
for	O
the	O
non-Plus	O
filePro	B-Application
16	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
filePro	B-Application
Plus	O
Version	O
4.0	O
released	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
1998	O
fPTechnologies	O
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
is	O
founded	O
by	O
the	O
filePro	B-Application
employees	O
,	O
and	O
buys	O
the	O
rights	O
to	O
filePro	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
there	O
is	O
an	O
fpGUI	O
add-on	O
for	O
GUI-based	O
access	O
,	O
filePro	B-Application
is	O
still	O
primarily	O
character-based	O
,	O
which	O
some	O
users	O
assert	O
makes	O
for	O
faster	O
and	O
more	O
efficient	O
data	O
entry	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
several	O
people	O
who	O
have	O
created	O
XML	B-Protocol
and	O
SQL	B-Language
bridges	O
that	O
allow	O
cross-communication	O
with	O
legacy	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Short	O
learning	B-General_Concept
curve	I-General_Concept
(	O
for	O
programmers	O
,	O
user	O
experience	O
is	O
software	O
dependent	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Able	O
to	O
connect	O
to	O
MySQL	O
and	O
utilize	O
the	O
power	O
of	O
filePro	B-Application
to	O
read	O
/	O
write	O
/	O
report	O
data	O
from	O
MySQL	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
