Part of me is scared that this will one day happen to me. Part of me is really excited for where technology is headed that one day this will happen to me.
I wish I could argue this point, but I really can't. about 10 years ago my sisters & I got a computer for our father for Christmas. We struggled to teach him how to use it. Keep in mind, this man helped put men on the moon...and he couldn't figure out email.
I have learned a lot over the years...new programs, new technology. But I'm finding it increasingly difficult to absorb new things. It will take me weeks to learn something you kids pick up in a half hour. Not much I can do about it, except to try to be good-natured when all y'all tease me about it.
Mine went really well when I purchased, but in the 40 or so days between it happening and the closing the dishwasher and disposal both went to ****. I don't really mind the disposal because I had planned on putting in a new sink anyways and that was always going to get replaced, but the dishwasher sucks. My plan has been to turn this into a rental in a few years but I am not sure if I should stay in the $200-$300 range to replace it or get one that I really want.
Playing DOS strip poker on my 3 color '86 IBM. Hot.
The first computer I used took up an entire (very cold) room and had tapes. The second one was a Decwriter (baskically a typewriter attached to a campus mainframe). We also had a Wang word processor in that office. The next job, I use a data recorder (a second gen keypunch style machine). I bundled the cards & walked them over to Durham before lunch. After lunch I would go back to Durham and pick up my printout. Moved from there to an Apple III where we merged ascii files and sent them via hard-wire to the mainframe in Durham. In 1991 I got my first PC at work and was able to compute and print the reports IN MY OFFICE. Damn, that was great!!!
Now, if you didn't understand some of those terms, then welcome to my world.
