the good old days before iPad

[ayceejay]

This is a 5 megabyte IBM hard drive balancing on a fork lift truck in 1956.

 

[SteCenturion]

R Kid once asked "what do you want for Christmas" (by txt) so I cheekily replied "an iPad".
On Christmas Day he presented me with a small cardboard box containing a surgical Eye Pad -
Cheeky Beggar.

 

[biggs682]

R Kid once asked "what do you want for Christmas" (by txt) so I cheekily replied "an iPad".
On Christmas Day he presented me with a small cardboard box containing a surgical Eye Pad -
Cheeky Beggar.

its the thought that counts surely

 

[Julia9054]

My first Kindle

 

[SteCenturion]

its the thought that counts surely

No - it's the present that counts & -
Stop calling me Shirley.

 

[DCLane]

About 10 years ago I used to have a Samsung IZZI tablet running Windows CE. Anyone who saw it thought I was odd and it was replaced with a Samsung netbook.

It was great; reversible touchscreen with a keyboard if you needed. The touchscreen worked fine, although it was a bit slow.

I think I used the keyboard less than 10 times but it was great for what it did. There's even one on eBay at the moment.

 

[Cyclist33]

Was that in the days when they still gave computers girls' names in order to appeal to the almost exclusively reclusive beardy no-mates blokes who bought computers back then?

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/profiles/80.html

 

[Cyclist33]

I will always remember as a young teen seeing an advert in a mag for the Lisa and the sentence "You can rent a Lisa for as little as £500 a month". This was the late Eighties and I nearly spit my teeth out at the cost.

 

[Fnaar]

I will always remember as a young teen seeing an advert in a mag for the Lisa and the sentence "You can rent a Lisa for as little as £500 a month". This was the late Eighties and I nearly spit my teeth out at the cost.

"A huge 512 kilobytes of memory"

 

[Cyclist33]

I like the 5mhz processor speed on the spec sheet!

 

[philk56]

Advances in computing power still amaze me.I graduated with a computer science degree thirty five years ago and we were still programming COBOL with punched cards and a day's turnaround. And you try telling the young people of today that...

 

[ufkacbln]

"A huge 512 kilobytes of memory"

I like the 5mhz processor speed on the spec sheet!

I had an Amstrad PCW for several years and I upgraded mine to 8MHz speed and a whole 1 MB of memory.
I then added a Mouse!

 

[tyred]

My Mum, a computer novice has been taking computer lessons lately and I have been helping her with some of the course content, the most recent thing being creating folders, sub directories, moving files around etc. I'm sitting thinking "why are you struggling to do this? I had to learn in MS DOS with typed commands and 8 character file names and wild cards"

 

[SteCenturion]

My Mum, a computer novice has been taking computer lessons lately and I have been helping her with some of the course content, the most recent thing being creating folders, sub directories, moving files around etc. I'm sitting thinking "why are you struggling to do this? I had to learn in MS DOS with typed commands and 8 character file names and wild cards"

So jealous of you techies -
I am a 'technonumpty' & can't do links or get rid of/change that 'well known member' thingy on my profile.
Or do an Avatar - 'cept on VD Player.

 

[Fnaar]

My Mum, a computer novice has been taking computer lessons lately and I have been helping her with some of the course content, the most recent thing being creating folders, sub directories, moving files around etc. I'm sitting thinking "why are you struggling to do this? I had to learn in MS DOS with typed commands and 8 character file names and wild cards"

I've helped a few 'older than me' people with this concept too... I told them to think of it like a (physical) filing cabinet. The computer is the metal box, the folders are the drawers. Seemed to help.