can not open a very old db file

Hi and thanks in advance for any help.

i have an old .db file. i've tried paradox viewer, sqlite, msaccess, excel, nothing will open it. I've also tried jdbc with every variation i can think of.

knowing the company that created it, it may be old enough to be a DB file, i'm talking before db2 or db3.

opened in hexedit and here's what i get, nothing intelligible that i can see. the actual column names and data are plain english text strings.

unsigned char ucDataBlock[301] = { // Offset 0x00000000 to 0x00000300 0x0D, 0x06, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00, 0x10, 0x48, 0x15, 0x00, 0x00, 0x5E, 0x02, 0x5E, 0x02, 0x01, 0x00, 0x5E, 0x02, 0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xAC, 0xD4, 0xE4, 0x6B, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x5A, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xCF, 0x5B, 0x00, 0x66, 0xDE, 0xE4, 0x6B, 0xB2, 0xDD, 0xE4, 0x6B, 0x00, 0x0C, 0x5E, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x1F, 0x0F, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x74, 0x09, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x20, 0x00, 0x0C, 0x01, 0x0C, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x19, 0xC2, 0xB8, 0x48, 0x5B, 0x00, 0x62, 0x08, 0x00, 0x00, 0xB5, 0x01, 0x01, 0x01, 0x16, 0x09, 0xB9, 0x2E, 0x00, 0x00, 0xDF, 0x42, 0x00, 0x00, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x23, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x02, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x01, 0x0F, 0x01, 0x14, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x19, 0x05, 0x08, 0x05, 0x08, 0x01, 0x32, 0x01, 0x32, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x02, 0x04, 0x02, 0x04, 0x02, 0x04, 0x02, 0x04, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x04, 0x04, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x0F, 0x01, 0x14, 0x04, 0x04, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x05, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x02, 0x04, 0x01, 0x0F, 0x01, 0x0F, 0x01, 0x19, 0x05, 0x08, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x05, 0x08, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x02, 0x04, 0x01, 0x0A, 0x01, 0x0C, 0x0C, 0x0B, 0x01, 0x23, 0x01, 0x23, 0x01, 0x23, 0x01, 0x0E, 0x01, 0x0E, 0x01, 0x0E, 0x01, 0x0F, 0x01, 0x23, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x04, 0x04, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x14, 0x01, 0x23, 0x22 }

any help would be appreciated. databases are not my strong suit, even though i am proficient in writing java, c#, VB, html5, javascript and more.

Andy Arledge