Sunday, November 05, 2006
Long Career(s)
Would you believe I have witnessed the following during my working career(s)?
* The enormorus amount of data you can store on a computer and access it so quickly using DOS. Just type in a few (hundred) commands. (I could never figure out why they called the monitor black and white when all the letters were orange.)
* A brand new operating system just developed. Apparently it is all graphics and you just have to click a mouse. And guess what, you can run two or three programs at a time. (Windows 3.0)
* Computer 'experts' fouled up my computer while installing the first in house network. The excuse, it has too much multimedia crap on it. (It had a CD player, sound card and sqawky speakers.) The experts never came back.
* About the same time I was donated a new operating system for my home computer (Windows 95). It turned out to be a free beta version that fractured my system. Several so called experts worked to revive it and progressively made it worse.
* The two items immediately above were probably the best thing that happened during my computer days. I realized that somebody had to fix those two computers, and that somebody was me. From that day forward this old guy has gotten pretty thorough when it comes to tackling computer issues.
* You know what, they are coming out with a 40 gig hard drive. Can you imagine, 40 gig?
* Can you believe it, 64 meg of ram? That is so much more than 2 meg. Just think what you will be able to do.
* A printer less that two hundred dollars that can print in colour. Yes in colour. All you have to do is change cartridges when you want colour.
* A fast modem up to 56k. Do you realize how fast that communicates?
Not limited to computers:
* A car with windshield washers. (Went through a jug of fluid in one evening. At least the windshield was clean.)
* A car with a transistor radio. Now you could sit (never mind where) and listen to the radio more than five minutes without killing the battery.
* Yes it has a Pushbutton Automatic Transmission. (1956 Plymouth cable operated.)
* Television, one channel, clear most of the time, snowy the other 80%(?). My favourite shows: Highway Patrol, Whirley Birds and Ed Sullivan.
* Colour television, first live local newscast (Sudbury, Ont.), big celebration, then a mouse killed the transmitter a few days later.
Ahhh progress is sweet...
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
* The enormorus amount of data you can store on a computer and access it so quickly using DOS. Just type in a few (hundred) commands. (I could never figure out why they called the monitor black and white when all the letters were orange.)
* A brand new operating system just developed. Apparently it is all graphics and you just have to click a mouse. And guess what, you can run two or three programs at a time. (Windows 3.0)
* Computer 'experts' fouled up my computer while installing the first in house network. The excuse, it has too much multimedia crap on it. (It had a CD player, sound card and sqawky speakers.) The experts never came back.
* About the same time I was donated a new operating system for my home computer (Windows 95). It turned out to be a free beta version that fractured my system. Several so called experts worked to revive it and progressively made it worse.
* The two items immediately above were probably the best thing that happened during my computer days. I realized that somebody had to fix those two computers, and that somebody was me. From that day forward this old guy has gotten pretty thorough when it comes to tackling computer issues.
* You know what, they are coming out with a 40 gig hard drive. Can you imagine, 40 gig?
* Can you believe it, 64 meg of ram? That is so much more than 2 meg. Just think what you will be able to do.
* A printer less that two hundred dollars that can print in colour. Yes in colour. All you have to do is change cartridges when you want colour.
* A fast modem up to 56k. Do you realize how fast that communicates?
Not limited to computers:
* A car with windshield washers. (Went through a jug of fluid in one evening. At least the windshield was clean.)
* A car with a transistor radio. Now you could sit (never mind where) and listen to the radio more than five minutes without killing the battery.
* Yes it has a Pushbutton Automatic Transmission. (1956 Plymouth cable operated.)
* Television, one channel, clear most of the time, snowy the other 80%(?). My favourite shows: Highway Patrol, Whirley Birds and Ed Sullivan.
* Colour television, first live local newscast (Sudbury, Ont.), big celebration, then a mouse killed the transmitter a few days later.
Ahhh progress is sweet...
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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