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Poster Handle joinca
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Yes, so much change in our lives. I started typing on one of those old black typewriters you see in antique stores or flea markets now and then. In college I had a portable typewriter, a bit easier to type on. Then came the IBM electric with the ball fonts that were interchangeable. Wow.
My kids went to college with the first of the word processors,
then the big computers, then everything just went exponential with the refinements. Now I cannot keep up, took me forever to get off of Windows XP, but finally couple years ago went to Windows 7, and refuse to go further with that.
Remember, when I was a child we still used out houses, chopped wood for wood stoves, and hand pumped water from the ground.
A few people here and there would have a radio, so many would gather around their radio for the news and the drama story series.

Now they are talking about hooking up people's brains to the computers so everyone is connected into one giant global brain or something.

I don't want to be around for that, it's just plain stupid, and unnecessary.

GOOD MORNING ALL, AND HAVE A WONDERFUL SATURDAY

olcof segt
 Quoting: Arnie


You've seen and experienced a lot in your lifetime, it's quite amazing. Don't feel old, because I'm in the same computer boat as you! Finally gave up my XP and then purposely got Windows 7 because that was when 8 had just been rolled out and everyone was complaining about it. Still use 7 and will continue to do so until this computer dies.

Arnie, here's your black typewriter:

kermittype
 Quoting: KickinIt


This all sounds way to familiar to me as well. In JC one of the first courses that I had to take for computer science was understanding how to use push cables to program a card boards for a sorting machine. The instructor said that this was all out of date when she was instructing the class. Then on to a fortran class with punch cards that you turned in each day and got the results the next morning if your program ran or nulled out.

And to windows started with DOS 1 here and on to DOS 2.2 then on to win95, win98, winME and on and on. I have just updated most friends and my computers to windows 10 while you can for free. You can get the install from microsoft and do an upgrade from within windows 7 and there you have it.

Ahhh such memories of college and the years at work. What fun it has been.
 
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