Old people and Computers

[indianafrank]

meph, go figure? That is scary. :crazy:

 

[brudnod]

If you don't have much tech savvy you don't have to help anyone else out with a computer problem. Believe me, you are MUCH better off!

 

[brudnod]

Commodore 64 came in a relatively close cousin of the venerable Compaq or Kaypro. It had a COLOR 5" screen a built in keyboard (which, by the way, had a lovely touch) and a single disk drive. Back in the day, as some of us old fogies recall, these non-hard drive computers came with a 5" floppy drive and if you wanted to really pep it up, you could "daily chain" a second drive to the first drive. The program ran on the first drive and that data ran on the second. This portable Commodore could only do a single drive so did not sell very well. And it weighed about 25 pounds. Portable my ass!

 

[brudnod]

My first research computer in 1985 was the brand new IBM-XT with a CGA color screen (the first color monitor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia), a whopping 640 kilobytes of memory, a HUGE 10 megabyte hard drive and ran at a blistering 477 kilohertz! (That's with a "k" not a "g"). Who could possibly fill up a 10 megabyte hard drive?!? By 1997 my PalmPilot could match the specs of that computer; by now a burner cell phone runs rings around it...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ha ha! I just never learned how to do much with a computer. I just never needed one, until the gas station stopped carrying my favorite magazines. Um, I mean newspapers. Yes, newspapers. :::cough cough:::

 

[danielplainview]

http://drgrabows.myfreeforum.org/index.php?component=indexpage
testing?
Hey, a link... I think I'm getting the hang of this computer thing.
Drives away slowly with left blinker continuously on.

 

[planetary]

instymp said:

+1 danielplainview, & young people are coming back to paper also.

False (except for hipsters). Unless there's some massive technological setback, our path is inevitably toward greater human/machine convergence. Think about where we were 100 years ago. Then 50 years ago. 25 years ago. Even 10 years ago. The patterns are obvious.

 

[cobguy]

"Hunt The Wumpus"

Frank ... glad I'm not the only one that remembers that game! :mrgreen:

 

[ejames]

I like my damn flip phone! :x

 

[simnettpratt]

Here's one from memory lane. Couldn't type by feel.