same here -
I was looking for an easier way to type documents, so I bought
what I called the 'glorified typewriter' [the Apple]
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:01 PM, James Knott <[email protected]> wrote:
And I bought my first computer (IMSAI 8080) 20 years before he was born!.
>
>
> anne-ology wrote:
>
>> Anthony you grew up in a world that many folks still have not
>> entered - some of us started using computers as a convenient type-writer,
>> some of us started communicating over the BBs with others, with the hope
>> that we could learn from those who were inventing these electronic
>> gadgets,
>> ... less than a decade before you were born, some folks were still saying
>> this industry was a passing fad, following the thinking of those at IBM
>> and
>> Xerox that they had the latest for many years to come ... then things
>> started to change with each passing day; computers were no longer those
>> huge machines filling some large room and spilling out stacks of cards,
>> ...
>> [have you seen the movie Bridget - it will open your eyes to how things
>> were before the computer age and has a great scene showing what's supposed
>> to be a computer filling a room with umpteen flashing lights.]
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Anthony Easthope <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> I was mistaken as to which version of MO I learned to use as a 5 year old.
>>
>>> It was MO 2000 not 2003. I am 16 not 14 also!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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