i bought BIAB on floppies to create backing tracks for a duo i played in. all midi in those days and the freebie with BIAB was PowerTracks. can't remember how i got on to BIAB but i think it was the music store in london who originally mentioned i could download backing tracks from the internet or 'there's band in a box and you can choose who is in your band.' which wasn't quite accurate but got me interested. all the styles were built in and i remember buying floppies with new midi styles from PG over the internet.

in fact when we played live we used PT DOS version to play the type O files on a laptop connected to a roland sc7 through a serial port.

funny in those days how much we used to have to know about pcs etc - eventually transferring to Windows 95 and having special versions of config.sys and autoexec.bat for different tasks like music and playing games. none of which i can remember and couldn't do these days.

but some of the basic lessons - rough out in BIAB and finalise in PT (now RB) taught me things that people coming to BIAB these days have missed out on and have great difficulty doing something which is quite simple.

and like you i can't sail my boat any more. parkinson's disease means i would probably fall overboard. it also means my guitar playing is getting severely limited and pc music more the norm for home consumption. playing out no longer happens.