I remember using this special paper with 3 lines per row we used to perfect our cursive writing. I guess it helped showing you were to curve up and down?
I feel sorry for the step grandkids, those that are over 30 were taught it but the younger ones weren't. They come and ask their mom or me to teach them how to write their names in cursive for their drivers license, bank accounts, etc..
We learned it in school and was told how important it was and weād need to use it for all assignmentsā¦. It was totally abolished by my high school years without mention or explanation.
Yeah. That was the first I saw at school. A guy came to school with several of them and set the up on our desks in class. No dedicated computer lab, those hadnāt been invented. My mom had a commodore a couple years later.
I remember how happy I was when the new computer my family got had a CD-ROM drive, because none of the new games were coming out on 3.5" disks anymore.
Lol back when no one had a pc, and all the data to be input was done by a team of data entry clerks, in a building remote from the trading floors of the fruit and vegetable market trader I worked for... the days reports were in continuous leaf format, delivered by a clerk with a hand trolley... it was going to save trees or something
Is anyone else familiar with the SOL 20 computer? In 1974, I was in the Air Force and one of the guys I worked with bought the kit but wasn't very good at soldering so I offered to put it together for him. I was into Heathkits at the time.
I skipped Win 98 when it came out and have always felt I dodged a bullet but jumped on Win 98 2nd Edition!
I took my first computer class in 1978, we learned Basic and Fortran and how to fill out computer cards to write a program before sending off our 3- 4 inch high stack of cards to the big computer at the nearby university.
Getting stack of cards back 3 weeks later to find one of the cards was out of order or you made a single mistake filling out a card so your program couldn't run was crushing.
I started with dos, then windows 3.1. Do yāall know how hard it is to use dos as a kid who didnāt know how to read or write yet? Absolutely infuriating
That big old tower sitting under the desk and wondering if you should get an ups in case of power outages. I remember worrying about that for my kidās computers.
Lot older. 98? For computer illiterates. Plug n play (95) opened the door, along with AOL for idjits to access the computer and really flame the fires of conspiracy and hate. Majority of folks used the PC for a high dollar game of solitaire instead of a pack of Bicycle playing cards.
That was an upgrade from what i was using. Fyi my first computer was a gateway. The better one they offered had a whopping 950MB of storage on it. Yes . MB. One of several games on my cell is like 2GB.
Am I? I dated the daughter of one of the dudes who helped create windows 95! Shortly before he lost everything to the IRS and drinking.
But yeah I had the them software from him and found it easier to game on than my older dos set up. I remember getting floppy disks with real small samples of PC games on them too. What a time.
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