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    Where is Alpha Bytes now?

    Does anyone have any information on H-NET, formerly Alphabytes. They were a software and related service provider doing business out of Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY. As I understand they sold their software to an optical frame manufacturer who marketed the product as “EasyFrames.” My interest lies in the fact that I did some work coding in Turbo Pascal on the produce back in 17 – 18 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbaker View Post
    Does anyone have any information on H-NET, formerly Alphabytes. They were a software and related service provider doing business out of Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY. As I understand they sold their software to an optical frame manufacturer who marketed the product as “EasyFrames.” My interest lies in the fact that I did some work coding in Turbo Pascal on the produce back in 17 – 18 years ago.
    I was with Benson Optical when they became the first US chain to go completely computerized from the lab, home office, to the field. AlphaBytes it was. I believe this was developed for, or was used by the Canadian health system. When I took over the shop (now Roberts Optical Ltd.) after Bensons went under in 1995, I found that the software was sold to Luxottica, using the name EZFrame, now owned by First Insight.

    The entire program fit on eight or so floppy disks. I'm still using this program to this day, running it in a dos window in XP. Twelve years of data and the program sits in one folder, fits with room to spare on a 100meg flash card, and can run from that folder on my home computer. It has never crashed, never lost data, has an Rx sceen to die for, including doctor's and wearer's vertex distance and OC heights, and only cost about $300. You had a hand in this? Then I'd have to say that you're a ****ing genius. Nobody writes software like this anymore.:(

    I tried the new AlphaBytes version about five years ago but they couldn't set up the demo in a way that convinced me that it do waht I wanted. To be fair, I was buying for a single store, and it was promoted as software for the larger chains. They may not have had theincentive to demo it properly for a single user.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rbaker View Post
    Does anyone have any information on H-NET, formerly Alphabytes. They were a software and related service provider doing business out of Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY. As I understand they sold their software to an optical frame manufacturer who marketed the product as “EasyFrames.” My interest lies in the fact that I did some work coding in Turbo Pascal on the produce back in 17 – 18 years ago.



    Try this contact ,
    http://www.opticalonline.com/

    By the time I decided it was probably the best software I had seen , it was priced beyond my budget .

    Why not remake it ?

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