The new PaperWhite snuck out! Incremental update - Page 11

speakingtohe · 09-06-2013, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

I don't really know what causes this kind of "I can't/don't want to understand this" apathy regarding technology, even in people who *want* to use the stuff they buy.

The only thing I know is that in my helpdesk time, I've had to resort to the "third button from the left, then the green one on the right"-mantra quite a lot... sometimes even with people who started the call with: "Hello, this is Dr. John Doe, PhD, from London." Normally one would think that people who have the intelligence *and* perseverance to obtain such a title (assuming they're not lying when calling) will be able to figure out how to use a new printer/copier, but not always.

In my day the first question asked was is it still plugged into the wall or is the printer attached by cable to the computer.

Helen

robko · 09-06-2013, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by AnemicOak

The first computer we had when I was a kid was the Commodore Vic 20 using a cassette recorder for storage (that or it was the TI-99, can't remember for sure which was first)...

I'm with you on this one -- and I shudder at the thought of helping one of my sisters with word processing a paper for nursing school and due to the limited memory of the Vic-20 it being split over 4 or 5 files on the cassette

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Still, I spent a lot of fun hours playing on it!

teh603 · 09-06-2013, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

I don't really know what causes this kind of "I can't/don't want to understand this" apathy regarding technology, even in people who *want* to use the stuff they buy.

Because then they'd be a threat to the manager who hired them, because they'd know stuff in more than just the field they were hired for.

jswinden · 09-06-2013, 06:10 PM

I went from this first computer with a tape recorder (not shown):

To this about a year later:

Then finally to a Apple II+ with a 9" color TV as the monitor.

jersysman · 09-06-2013, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by speakingtohe

In my day the first question asked was is it still plugged into the wall or is the printer attached by cable to the computer.

Helen

Was that before or after making sure that the O.F.F./O.N switch was in the ON position?

speakingtohe · 09-06-2013, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jersysman

Was that before or after making sure that the O.F.F./O.N switch was in the ON position?

Before

pidgeon92 · 09-06-2013, 10:27 PM

Ooh, mine was an Atari 800. I loved that thing. I had a 5 1/4" disk drive, the cassette drive, and a dot matrix printer. That setup cost a fortune. I was sooooooo cool. I remember buying computer magazines at the drug store that had basic programs for simple games printed in them, and laboriously typing in all of the code for hours, then having to debug my typing errors for many more hours.

Mivo · 09-07-2013, 04:49 AM

You guys almost make feel me young.

My first computer was a CPC 6128 in the mid 80s, when I was the only teenager in my class who owned a computer! (Sadly, it only impressed the other guys, not the girls!

Then I switched to a row of Atari STs.

Alexander Turcic · 09-07-2013, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Mivo

You guys almost make feel me young.

My first computer was a CPC 6128 in the mid 80s, when I was the only teenager in my class who owned a computer! (Sadly, it only impressed the other guys, not the girls!

Yap. Been there.

meeera · 09-07-2013, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mivo

You guys almost make feel me young.

ZX81. There ya go.

(We also had a home Pong console...)

Gilmartin · 09-07-2013, 06:35 AM

My first was an Oric (sp?). I just had to be different as everyone else I knew had Spectrums

Mivo · 09-07-2013, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by meeera

(We also had a home Pong console...)

I also had one of those! It was some clone by a company called Telefunken. But I didn't use it long and got an Atari 2600 console. The CPC came after that.

soulfuldog · 09-07-2013, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Mivo

You guys almost make feel me young.

My first computer was a CPC 6128 in the mid 80s, when I was the only teenager in my class who owned a computer! (Sadly, it only impressed the other guys, not the girls!.

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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Yap. Been there.

Ha, you guys sound like my brother.

I wonder though if we were the only kids whose Mum stayed up half the night while we slept playing on the games console (Q*bert on the Atari)? I think computer/gaming addiction runs in our family.....

jswinden · 09-07-2013, 11:49 AM

My brother had a Pong console too! Not very fast though was it? You could hit the ball then go run some errands and be back in time to return the ball again! Okay, that was exaggerated just a bit! We played that thing for hours.

pilotbob · 09-08-2013, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by GoSharks

During those pre-computer days what did people use? Oh yeah, wait for it...filing cabinets with folders to organize them. Straight forward concept. I'd hate to see the tops of the physical desks that these 'everything-on-the-desktop types' use at work.

Most apps where I store much data I don't use folder to organize data. It is too limiting. Tags and Search are much more efficient.

See Gmail and Evernote as two examples.

BOb

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09-06-2013, 06:10 PM	#154
jswinden Nameless Being	I went from this first computer with a tape recorder (not shown): To this about a year later: Then finally to a Apple II+ with a 9" color TV as the monitor.

09-06-2013, 10:27 PM	#157
pidgeon92 Wizard Posts: 3,144 Karma: 8426142 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Chicago, IL Device: Kindle PW2, Kindle Voyage, Kindle DXG, Boox M90, Kobo Aura HD	Ooh, mine was an Atari 800. I loved that thing. I had a 5 1/4" disk drive, the cassette drive, and a dot matrix printer. That setup cost a fortune. I was sooooooo cool. I remember buying computer magazines at the drug store that had basic programs for simple games printed in them, and laboriously typing in all of the code for hours, then having to debug my typing errors for many more hours.

09-07-2013, 04:49 AM	#158
Mivo Fanatic Posts: 556 Karma: 3531054 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Germany Device: In use: Pocketbook InkPad 3, Kobo Glo, iPad Air 2	You guys almost make feel me young. My first computer was a CPC 6128 in the mid 80s, when I was the only teenager in my class who owned a computer! (Sadly, it only impressed the other guys, not the girls! Then I switched to a row of Atari STs.

09-07-2013, 06:35 AM	#161
Gilmartin Zealot Posts: 134 Karma: 1244690 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: UK Device: PRS-T1, PW2	My first was an Oric (sp?). I just had to be different as everyone else I knew had Spectrums

09-07-2013, 11:49 AM	#164
jswinden Nameless Being	My brother had a Pong console too! Not very fast though was it? You could hit the ball then go run some errands and be back in time to return the ball again! Okay, that was exaggerated just a bit! We played that thing for hours.