Tootle Puffers, Part Three! (The Sequel of the Redux)

[Storm52]

Punch cards? That takes me back. I never used them. But, my mother did. I got to go to work with her one time in a locked computer room. It was full of machines with reels of tape. She sat at a console that used punch cards.

IBM 9200 used to spit out tons of paper, reports programmed with tape and data on punched cards. Noisy and cranky at times. We used our own microwave phone line to transmit. When we finally went to mainframe (before PCs), the clerks who were close to retirement age, retired early saying, "I'm not learning a new system". These were the same people that used to either hand write or type waybills.

 

[Bea-FL]

I was first expised to a computer when I was school services manager at the Cinti Zoo. DOS and D-base days. Black screen, green letters.

I LOVED it!!! Took to it like a duck to water. Then the system crashed…about a week later. Lost all entered data. Taught me a valuable lesson about backing up which I have never forgotten.

Then I remember getting my first PC…it had a HUGE amount of space…64M

 

[r77r7r]

Not a computer, but what were those communication devices that had rolls of yellow tape with holes punched in it?
I used to stop in my father's office back in the 60's and see that.

 

[Storm52]

Tele-types or possibly stock tickers?

 

[FranC]

You folks are way over my head head. I was a very late comer to puters.

 

[Storm52]

You folks are way over my head head. I was a very late comer to puters.

I'm just old Fran!

 

[FranC]

I'm just old Fran!

Me too,Storm Just never got into computers.

BTW congrats on the fantastic contest win

 

[Storm52]

Thank you! First time winning anything, including here. I was looking at the zenith tank and almost clicked "check out" many times, but I kept thinking my old provari and nautilus works (and has worked for 4 years) just fine. Now, I'll get the opportunity to use the newest and greatest - for this week - tank!

 

[stols001]

My mom got her ;programming PhD in computers when I was tiny. I remember going to pick her up, we always played with the discarded punch cards.

I can't program though, I can barely operate a computer. LOL.

Anna

 

[DavidOck]

I LOVED it!!! Took to it like a duck to water. Then the system crashed…about a week later. Lost all entered data. Taught me a valuable lesson about backing up which I have never forgotten.

Yep. Two kinds of computer users. Those who have had a hard drive crash, and those who will.

It's not just vaping where backups are essential!!

 

[oplholik]

I've never had it happen, but hopefully I'm prepared. I have all my important stuff backed up to an external HD, and google drive. If I add a new doc, pic, or anything I want to keep, I save it in those two places, then delete it from the PC. Makes it so much easier when it's time for a new computer to have all that already where I want it to be. If the pc goes down, I can go to the laptop and pick it up, as I use Chrome, it makes it easy to get to Google Sheets for my Docs.

 

[1/2 fast]

I've never had it happen, but hopefully I'm prepared. I have all my important stuff backed up to an external HD, and google drive. If I add a new doc, pic, or anything I want to keep, I save it in those two places, then delete it from the PC. Makes it so much easier when it's time for a new computer to have all that already where I want it to be. If the pc goes down, I can go to the laptop and pick it up, as I use Chrome, it makes it easy to get to Google Sheets for my Docs.

I do the same thing as you do, including the external drive, excepting I use Dropbox and iCloud instead of google drive. It’s nice to access anything I’ve kept from any device. Been using pc’s since you had to stoke them with coal. Had plenty of hard drive and system crashes over the years.

 

[stols001]

Backups, you say? LOL. My backups are some USB drives. I don't think the husband backed up my laptop to anything although he probably has, since it's wired into (well wirelessly now I think) his large backup "every computer thing in the house." I don't like the cloud, I don't trust the cloud and I think IT is contributing to global warming, not to mention information loss (although, you can't win there, anywhere, your best bet is to be poverty stricken, in a shack, where no one "bothers" to hack you.

I lost some of my favorite pics and many of my contacts on my phone when the husband "assumed" that I had backed them up to the cloud. I have NO CLUE where he would have gotten an assumption like THAT.

My biggest fear if/when he dies before me is trying to figure out all his passwords and where he "keeps" everything so I can access the vast storehouse of bills to be paid and etc. I almost might think I may be better off burying him in the yard, telling no one, and hiking into the mountains (with my Sherpa pants on, obviously) until everything goes away (I'm thinking 4--6 months) and then I only have to deal with what apartment I am going to rent and live out my poverty stricken days. He keeps saying he will "Write them down" but I think I would have to STAND OVER him to have it accomplished, which I really should do at some point).

You should have seen the debate when he put a fingerprint passoword on his phone. I have ZERO interest in his phone, unless he dies. So, I took him to his HOME phone and said, "Okay, so you basically, in my hour of need, want me to call your mother and sister in law to tell them you are dead, and that I need to find a way to crack your phone, to let everyone ELSE know? You really, really want to do that to me?" LOL, well I got fingerprinted, but it's entirely possible the CLOUD knows more about my husband's computer activities than I do.

I don't worry about the cloud.... Except for the fact that it contributes to climate change. I don't want to do anything rash, clouds are part of weather and I don't want to mess with that. LOL.

Anna

 

[oplholik]

One of my biggest fears is that my wife will pass before I do, and I'll have to start taking care of the checkbook and the bills. Disaster!!

 

[corn flakes]

My biggest fear is when I die the wife sells the vape stash for what I told her I paid for it.

 

[stols001]

I know. I've got to make a will, if only because it will be a "hidden" document with the value of my stash in it that eh, I will HIDE. Although my kiddo knows about my provaris, LOL. he keeps telling me to not take them out of the house so I don't get robbed.

The last time I got robbed was at the library of Congress and I had spent HOURS there copying very arcane books about Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle so I could complete my graduation dissertation in one of my majors. I am afraid, when the guy wanted my stuff, I was like, yeah you can have my purse, but not my identity cards, and you can have my backpack, but trust me when I say that at this moment I would rather *die* than hand over these photocopies that you have NO use for but I do.

I think the robber was a bit astonished, but there's no real reason NOT to try and negotiate with one, in my opinion. Robbers or not, still people, and I really rather felt that I would rather die than go back in and RE-photocopy. So, my provaris would be hard to get out of my hands.... But my kiddo will at least know enough to RESERACH the value of my stash.

Since the husband plans to continue "quitting" vaping even though yesterday was his first day that he made it to 7 p.m without smoking, he may well die before me. In which case, my kiddo gest everything. He will be pleased. Etc.

Anna

 

[Shawn Hoefer]

My biggest fear is when I die the wife sells the vape stash for what I told her I paid for it.

I actually included my collection in my will LOL

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[sorrynomore]

I keep nothing on the computer that I care about,all the important stuff is on external drives and usb keys.

Funny thing today,I got a phone call from someone on another continent telling me he was from Microsoft and our computer was throwing off viruses and had tons of errors and I should (under his direction) go to event viewer...LOL...I told him I didn't care and if my computer had viruses and errors and if the computer goes belly up I'd just throw it out and buy a new one....He promptly hung up on me....The nerve.

 

[stols001]

That's a scam. When they call me, I let them go on and on about the Microsoft viruses for a while.... Then I tell them I use only Apple products and ask how they can help me.

I really love making telemarters and scammers hang up on me, LOL. We haven't had the "Microsoft" call in a while. But one work luncheon I was bored and a lady talked to me at length about "helping me with my credit" and I told her upfront that I would be giving out ZERO information, and then she went through her "stealers schtick" for about 40 minutes, and asked again after she "softened me up" and she hung up on me. It was fun at the time, but I think they also measure "time spent" on the phone, as I still get those ones. LOL.

I really really don't enjoy turning down the police on their annual fund drive. I HATE it, but I refuse to give them money etc. It always seems to be me that gets that one, not the husband, and I always refuse to give them money, but I cite implausible (sometimes true) happenings that prevent me from donating a red cent.

Because.... There was no "Social work" union or whatever, calling around to "Fund" ME, and as far as I was concerned, I was getting paid to work, as are cops.

Anna

 

[Bea-FL]

One of my biggest fears is that my wife will pass before I do, and I'll have to start taking care of the checkbook and the bills. Disaster!!

My hubs would have the same problem

My biggest fear is when I die the wife sells the vape stash for what I told her I paid for it.

maybe you should fess up? She whose hubs doesn't know how much she spent says