14 Jun 23
@the-gravedigger saidDid you have a gramophone in your first car?
I asked a woman at work, 29 years old (before I retired) if she knew what a gramophone was.' No' she replied.
I asked her if she knew what a cassette player was. 'Oh yes, I had one of those in my first car' she replied.
Funny old world.
14 Jun 23
My first-chosen career (comptometrist) vanished into the ether less than 5 years after I started my first job. I jumped to ledger machinist which lasted another 10 years. By then computers had arrived in workplaces. Hopped from WordStar and Multiplan to Xywrite and Lotus123, then Word and Excel, then escaped to an Android-filled retirement. I've had things to play with continuously for 60 years since I left high school.
@the-gravedigger saidHaha, nice answer.
Yes but it was rubbish. Every time I drove over a bump the needle jumped.
So I bought a bigger car and drove around with a a string quartet composed of one cello, one viola, and two violins.
14 Jun 23
@kewpie saidXyWrite! Yeah! I still use it. Totally customizable, I love it. Never crashed or corrupted a document.
My first-chosen career (comptometrist) vanished into the ether less than 5 years after I started my first job. I jumped to ledger machinist which lasted another 10 years. By then computers had arrived in workplaces. Hopped from WordStar and Multiplan to Xywrite and Lotus123, then Word and Excel, then escaped to an Android-filled retirement. I've had things to play with continuously for 60 years since I left high school.
14 Jun 23
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@rookie54 said“Dragged her into ...”
visual education aids like cave painting and hieroglyphics are still common in the southern regions of the united states
reports of energy upgrades like electricity and sanitation enhancements like indoor plumbing and running water are myths
i do remember fondly the first time i clubbed a breeding mate and drug her into my cave
good times
Though you may indeed have drugged her as well.
Courtesy of the …, oh, never mind. 🙄
15 Jun 23
@very-rusty saidMostly I remember Elly May. Had a crush on her.
Who remembers…The Beverly Hillbillies?
-VR
15 Jun 23
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@kewpie saidI despise MS-Weird. Too many buzzers, bells, and whistles. Can't find the functions I need for all the weeds. Remember that stupid PaperClip wizard! Gad, what ludicrous rubbish Redmond puts out. Serious writers and editors used professional tools back then, XyWrite and NoteBene. Now every publishing house expects Weird.docs, which is just incomprehensible to me (a professional technical writer myself, and my father and step-mother were also).
Things went backwards when graphics came along. Although the games were a bit limited. Remember wumpus?
I never played games on my computers (except chess); it's a work-station for me, not a friggin' play-station. And that's where MS comes from, you know; it always was a gaming platform, never was a WORK-station. MS-Windows is just a gussied-up play-station, IMO.
Wumpus? Wozzat??
I learned my first programming language on IBM punched cards. Now that's going back a ways.
