Seniors and computers.
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I love the irony of chippy posting about seniors and computers.... Twice 
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Not sure what happened there i blame the forum software not the user 
That makes me shudder. I can feel the web browser spinning for 20 minutes before saying "Sorry, can't find the website" and you have to press the refresh button and hope for the best
An hour later, you realise the website probably is down.
An hour later, you realise the website probably is down.
I remember seeing friends getting computers and then thinking I gotta get one. Then going shopping for one getting it home all excited. Then a few weeks later thinking what am I going to use this for? Never been interested in gaming and you only write a few letters. At the time probably a waste of money.
Lol. That computer above definitely has a modem doesn't it.Enjoy
If I'm not mistaken, that looks like Windows 95, not 98, so definitely modem era (certainly in the UK)
I never upgraded my desktop from windows 95..just ran it til it was a nuisance and started smoking (not ****) and slung most of it. The tower is still in the "chuck out" section in the garage!
Pah. Windoze my ****
You should have been using a terminal emulator in DOS to talk directly to the 2400 baud modem on the com port& typed in the at commands to connect to the pre internet bulleten boards.
You should have been using a terminal emulator in DOS to talk directly to the 2400 baud modem on the com port& typed in the at commands to connect to the pre internet bulleten boards.
Ah, Windows 95, the last time I genuinely knew what I was doing on a computer!
I haven't used a PC in years but if I were to get one again for whatever reason, I think I'd insist on having Windows 95 as the OS.
When that was cutting edge tech, the world was just a more pleasant place...well, not really, but there were no crazy ten fingered AI pictures popping up every five minutes and nobody actually questioned if their customer service people were actually people or robots.
I haven't used a PC in years but if I were to get one again for whatever reason, I think I'd insist on having Windows 95 as the OS.
When that was cutting edge tech, the world was just a more pleasant place...well, not really, but there were no crazy ten fingered AI pictures popping up every five minutes and nobody actually questioned if their customer service people were actually people or robots.
The memories flood back
Apart from talking to other weirdos about beer and looking at fishing stuff (on my phone)I don't really like using computers.
In work I have four screens each with multiple pages running to monitor and control the machine I work on plus a cctv monitor on a room I don't sit in...a complete nuisance the lot of it!
In work I have four screens each with multiple pages running to monitor and control the machine I work on plus a cctv monitor on a room I don't sit in...a complete nuisance the lot of it!
Yep. I put together a windows 3.11 PC for my dad. Booted in 20 seconds and started Word in 3 seconds.
DOS came on a single floppy (1.2 meg), Windows 3 on 3 discs, Windows 95 on 21. I remember how tense it got when installing Windows 95 and you got to around disk 18 hoping you wouldn't hear the grinding sound the preceded a 'disc read error'. Later versions came on DVDs with a 5 gig capacity or over 3 thousand floppies.
I am fairly sure that was the same monitor that came with the first Sony desktop i bought (Windows 95) i think it was a Trinitron.
We then moved to Windows 98 which was an improvement followed by Windows 2000 which was horrendous.
We then moved to Windows 98 which was an improvement followed by Windows 2000 which was horrendous.
Witchcraft!
I imagine most of us olds were playing with stuff like the commodore back in the day not really computing just playing games etc, my first Windows 95 PC and the internet changed all that and its now difficult to remember a time before the PC's and the internet, i remember the buzz when we first moved from dial-up to broadband being a small town we had to get hundreds of people to sign that they had an interest before BT would even consider installing it i remember the first day firing up the PC on the day we moved to broadband going on eBay and seeing the page load near instantly instead of in several separate blocks the difference was mind blowing, look how far we have come in such a short time.
Commodore 64
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But back in the early 80s people had to be clever to get a computer with limited speed & memory to do stuff
In the past 20 years nothing has got faster, in fact it's slower & it's also harder to find where they moved the menu option to. (I'm looking at you ms office)
In the past 20 years nothing has got faster, in fact it's slower & it's also harder to find where they moved the menu option to. (I'm looking at you ms office)
There was a lad in school with me in the 80s,quiet chap but decent...computers mad.
Sold his company(IT)when he was 40,about 16 years ago for 4.5 million and retired....
Sold his company(IT)when he was 40,about 16 years ago for 4.5 million and retired....
