Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - do over?

I take it as a compliment when my son-in-law is impressed with what I can do on the computer. His parents are younger than I and more resistant.

Great stories. I love email for that reason Gloria. And I have reconnected with a few people because of the web, including my HS English teacher, who is one of my closest friends now.

I guess I started using a computer because often I was the only person around who could type. I went from an old clackety underwood typewriter, to an IBM and then one day we were issued an IBM System 6 computer. The secretaries refused to even try it out.

We had a report to get out so it was up to me to do the job. Ive been using whatever computer we had since then to do the work that needed to be done. I think that was about 1965.

wow!

Wow - that is real early!

High school reunions are not high on my hit parade. I don't think I've ever been to one. Our 40th should be coming up next year. From what I hear about ours, only the folks who still live locally ever attend - and there aren't too many of those. We'd have more fun getting together in a local restaurant, I think, and just being chums, rather than shell out X amount of bucks for a fancy-shmancy place!

Victor. Thats the one that told you to write the book?

A few years ago I reconnected with an old friend who was a TA in graduate school with me in San Diego. As fellow teaching assistants in a very heavy duty stress situation (we both had to take on the teaching load of full professors) when we took a break we often lapsed into extreme silliness.

Today, he is a professor at Notre Dame University. But, via e-mail we still can take a "silly" break every few months or so.

Yes. Actually I had already planned to but he has been pushing me - to no avail so far!

I remember my first IBM computer. You had to insert the floppy disk each time you wanted to start it up. I used to carry it back and forth to work, so that the things we needed to get done at work would go more quickly. THAT was a pain! Hauling that HUGE PC and the keyboard and all the peripherals gave me a work out, for sure!!

I remember when Windows 95 came out, and I said that no way was I going to put that on my computer.

I remember learning code so that I could create webpages, too. Even today I will code by hand.

Ah! The things you remember on a snowy morning!

Wow - impressive, Candyce! I did a complete 180 with computers, From programming with machine code in the early 80's to now where I just want it easy and intuitive. No interest in programming at all!

Candyce: In all those years I never would have made the trip back to Michigan for a High School Reunion. I especially did not want to compare my life to people who stayed at home.

But after 50 years of no connection, somehow via e-mail a casual friendship I had in the 4th and 4th grades with this freaky kid was somehow rekindled. Out of ashes so to speak. The magic of e-mail.

i remember briefly having a Coleco computer in the 80s which took cassette tapes.
When i was in HS, i fell in with a crowd of BBSers - back before internet, when a big "chat" was one where 7 people could be on at once, and most of the BBSs only one person could be on at a time - they were time limited. Made a LOT of friends (and several boyfriends) like that. This one guy - who worked at Radio Shack - gave me a monitor/keyboard combo (looked v. star trek) and a modem (i don't think it was one of those cool fast 9600baud ones though - maybe 5200?) so i could do all this.
anybody else do that back in the day?

Amy - you must be ancient.LOL
I don't think I was on the internet until 19 and 96.

hehehe - but weren't BBSs before the internets were invented?
More like a truck than a series of tubes.

I had Compuserve in the early 80's and had a 300 baud modem! Actually the internet has been around since the early 70's. The 'web' came much later - early 90's. I was online pretty early - early '95. Very few sites! Ordered from Amazon that year!

What year was this?
Yes, BBS was created for military use as I recall. I think that was what Al Gore created??

Ordered from Amazon in '95. The first internet was called DARPANET, funded by DARPA, the research arm of the Pentagon.

They they introduce internet porn too? I think that's been around since the beginning of time ;)

i took about a 10 year break between the late 80s and about 1997 when my boyfriend/fiancee of that time bought a computer. Played fantasy hockey. A lot.
Got my first "real" computer in late 2000/early 2001. i decided (with the advice of a friend) to get one with lots of memory - cause you just never know. So we went for the big 13G drive...
In under 2 months it completely died. I turned it on, got a black screen that said:
Hard disk not detected.
About a zillion of my computer geek friends came to try to fix it. Unh-uh.
Finally, after more than a month, a non-geek said, why don't you take it back to Best Buy. i did, and they said it was faulty and gave me a new one. (This had never occurred to the fix-it guys...)

Actually, they say porn was the tipping point for the success of VCRs and home computers...

My first computer wasn't until '94. My younger brother had An Apple II back in '84

Interesting Amy!
My first computer was in 2002, used work computers prior to that.

I had the Vic-20 ('82?) and then the Commodore 64.

That Lionel Ritchie was an IT wizard.

And could ID a Brick House from afar!

No doubt!

I never knew anyone with the measurements 36-24-36 to be a brick house. That's smaller than me!

Whoa! I'm on my way over now, Harper!

Edited to correct the grammar error made in the excitement of the moment.

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Fourteen days and the well meant resolutions for the New Year already abandoned.

Did I resolve?

Maybe not.

... I'll leave the door unlocked.

What resolutions pirl?

You have unresolved resolvement issues to resolve?

Not me. Didn't make any resolutions.

Me neither. Never do.

I just got an email of why quarterbacks should have short names. It was pics of girls with the quarterback's names on the back of their bikinis! Romo and Rothlisberger.

Ha - the second one would encircle the entire thing.

not in this picture...

O.K. I thought Id share one of the photos my 4th grade classmate in Michigan sent me of his winter project. He is working on this jeep.

Interesting project for a snowed-in weekend or two.

This is an example of a photo you can get from an e-mail pen pal.

That looks like fun. Not for me though. Not into cars at all. Some American male, right?