Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part 2

[garyoa1]

Ya'll can't imagine how rapidly I advanced in my civilian career by manipulating 'autoexec.bat' and 'config.sys'!!! Waaay back then, I was a mystic guru...

Since then, I've gained some weight, grew some hair and am down to four limbs...

Heh, back in da day, they hadda drag me kicking and screaming from dos. But doubt I could write even a simple batch file anymore. :/

 

[MikeE3]

Heh, back in da day, they hadda drag me kicking and screaming from dos. But doubt I could write even a simple batch file anymore. :/

he, he - I remember really disliking windows when it first came out. hmmm? Somethings never change

 

[amoret]

I used Ghost to prepare new PCs.....had the image on the network so it was accessible from anywhere. Old school!!!

he, he - I remember really disliking windows when it first came out. hmmm? Somethings never change

I used ghost later when I'd moved up in the world and time had moved on, but at the nonprofit we didn't get such frills. I remember switching to windows, part of why I'm making myself stay patient with my introduction to 8.1. The touchscreen is wonderful, and the laptop has a touchpad, but I think I'll be happier for some uses when my trackball gets here tomorrow or Tuesday. Vapemail is fun, but you gotta love computer mail, too.

The strangest thing is that I'm missing autocomplete and autocorrect. As much as I've complained about some of the results they sure help these hands type faster. I'm sure they are in here somewhere, but I haven't figured out where yet.

 

[therussellv]

Still got my trs80, still works too

last stinkie October 15, 2013

 

[MikeE3]

Still got my trs80, still works too

last stinkie October 15, 2013

Yes a few years ago I sold the last of my Commodore stuff to a collector. He must have been serious, he drove over 100 miles to get it.

 

[DavidOck]

Sold a couple programs to Compute and Gazette back then. One BASIC, one 6502.

Still (not-so) fondly remember the tape drive with my first VIC-20..

 

[3mg Meniere]

The strangest thing is that I'm missing autocomplete and autocorrect. As much as I've complained about some of the results they sure help these hands type faster. I'm sure they are in here somewhere, but I haven't figured out where yet.

I once found an error in my writing, caused by autocorrect. It was so hysterically funny, that I must have gut-laughed for five minutes, with tears.

We really do have some pioneers in the computer field participating in this thread, don't we? Sorry, I can't reminisce with you. I barely passed my computer class as an undergraduate.

 

[amoret]

We really do have some pioneers in the computer field participating in this thread, don't we? Sorry, I can't reminisce with you. I barely passed my computer class as an undergraduate.

I flunked my only college computer class, FORTRAN programming. Then much later my husband got me into using a pc, and later than that I was working as a temporary secretary when they asked me to hand sort a bulk mailing. The labels had been printed from a database and I knew that they shouldn't need hand sorting. Checked into it and it turned out that the previous secretary had also learned to type in the dark ages and had never learned to type the number one instead of using a lower case L. This royally screws up Zip code sorting.

Next thing I knew I was learning to program in dBase so that I wouldn't have to find every l manually and change each L to a one. That was the start of a twenty year career. It turns out that an old fashioned liberal arts education really does help when the world changes around you. The most important thing that I learned in college was how to keep learning.

I kept up with all the changes until employers decided that they needed everyone to have a computer science degree to do the work I'd been doing. I still wonder how well those freshly graduated computer science majors adapt when everything they know is outdated within a couple of years.

 

[garyoa1]

I kept up with all the changes until employers decided that they needed everyone to have a computer science degree to do the work I'd been doing. I still wonder how well those freshly graduated computer science majors adapt when everything they know is outdated within a couple of years.

Heh, look around. Companies are falling apart left and right. Bankruptcies, bailouts...
Big companies making a killing? Yep. But they can't see the bubble they're building around themselves. They grow, automate, lay off employees. Keep growing and making even more money. But none of them realize that those employees are also customers. What happens when they run out of customers?

These kids... they aren't adapting well. They just don't know it. Yet.

 

[therussellv]

The end is coming, sooner rather than later, just remember, a country boy can survive.

last stinkie October 15, 2013

 

[umanbean]

..

C:\dos
c:\dos\run
c:\dos\run dos run
c:\dos\crash
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I typed all that in with CAPS and it was corrected to small letters when it posted. whatever..

"In the day", I typed in lower case so much, still can't get used to "proper" type-age.

Ya'll can't imagine how rapidly I advanced in my civilian career by manipulating 'autoexec.bat' and 'config.sys'!!! Waaay back then, I was a mystic guru...

Man, that brings back some old memories! Seems like I've typed:

edlin autoexec.bat, or
edlin config.sys, or later
edlin win.ini

so many times back then, didn't even have to think about which keys to hit... it just "came out".

IIRC, DOS 2.1 was where I started.

Y'all keep this up, I'm gonna go pull out my old Tandy Color Computer.

 

[umanbean]

Over on the Front Porch (that's SO much more definitive than "the other thread"), I posted about helping a young lady I know get acquainted with ecigs.

This got me thinking about the seemingly Lost Art of Listening. She was a very good listener, and learned a lot as a result.

I'm often approached by people seeking advice on things I'm "known for"... Mostly computers, sometimes photography/cameras or gardening, and now ecigs.

Is it just me, or is there a growing percentage of people who will ask a question and, for chrissakes, won't SHUT UP long enough for me to get in a whole sentence!!!

It took me a while, but I've learned over the years to keep it simple. Most people's eyes will glaze over if given too many details or too much "technical stuff" at once.

So I get started with as-concise of an answer as I can, and they cut me off mid-sentence with a bunch of blather, like they know more about the subject than I do!

"If you're gonna answer you own questions, cut me off, and generally NOT listen to what I have to say... why the H are you wasting my time?!"

Geeze louise!!

Thank you for listening.

/rant

 

[DavidOck]

But, Uman, you forgot...

Uh, what were you saying? Couldn't hear you over my voice...

Yah, does happen all too often... Funny how the ears get blocked when the mouth is open

 

[MikeE3]

An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup for the wife. They had spotted a piano in the lobby and thought, why not!

 

[Flowersoul]

Mike, that is so sweet! Loved watching it!

 

[Iffy]

... why not!

FABULOUS!

Here's their short STORY.

'Joyful noise', indeed!

 

[Janet H]

Has anyone ever seen this Damn You Auto Correct site? Some of these are seriously funny!!!

http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/71325/the-16-funniest-autocorrects-of-december-2013/

 

[Dominique Hoogduin]

Well my broken down CPU cooler was deemed a totall loss.. they wanted to replace me with a same one but its out of stock so i picked a cheaper one. One that doesnt rely on a pump So that means a partial refund and we all know where thats gonna go .. jmuahahah.

 

[Dominique Hoogduin]

"In the day", I typed in lower case so much, still can't get used to "proper" type-age.



Man, that brings back some old memories! Seems like I've typed:

edlin autoexec.bat, or
edlin config.sys, or later
edlin win.ini

so many times back then, didn't even have to think about which keys to hit... it just "came out".

IIRC, DOS 2.1 was where I started.

Y'all keep this up, I'm gonna go pull out my old Tandy Color Computer.

Freeing up some of that 640kb.. getting something to run oh those days. Or use highmem.. man we have come a long way since then.

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

Over on the Front Porch (that's SO much more definitive than "the other thread"), I posted about helping a young lady I know get acquainted with ecigs.

This got me thinking about the seemingly Lost Art of Listening. She was a very good listener, and learned a lot as a result.

I'm often approached by people seeking advice on things I'm "known for"... Mostly computers, sometimes photography/cameras or gardening, and now ecigs.

Is it just me, or is there a growing percentage of people who will ask a question and, for chrissakes, won't SHUT UP long enough for me to get in a whole sentence!!!

It took me a while, but I've learned over the years to keep it simple. Most people's eyes will glaze over if given too many details or too much "technical stuff" at once.

So I get started with as-concise of an answer as I can, and they cut me off mid-sentence with a bunch of blather, like they know more about the subject than I do!

"If you're gonna answer you own questions, cut me off, and generally NOT listen to what I have to say... why the H are you wasting my time?!"

Geeze louise!!

Thank you for listening.

/rant

Oh my Gawd... I can sooo Identify with that. Got a sister in law who keeps complaining she can't do anything with "computers". She says she breaks em everytime she uses em. When I try to show her some basic stuff, she won't shut up long enough to listen