How did we spend our time before we had a computer,I just read in the last 24 hours there was over 2000 people had been on this sight that,s a lot of grey hair isent it great,I hardly read at all until I bought a computer ,now my blue eye,s are turning gray as well,love it.
Lance C
-- Edited by Olley46 on Sunday 17th of March 2013 03:07:48 PM
Grams said
10:10 PM Mar 17, 2013
Books, board games and a deck of cards....or the good old jigsaw puzzles were my favourites....now I have them all on my computer lol
vk6tnc said
10:22 PM Mar 17, 2013
I had to earn a living fixing phones, TVs and videos instead !!!
Just as well computers came along, because it's no longer economical to fix other consumer electronics, just throw it away and buy another piece of cheap chinese crap....
-- Edited by vk6tnc on Sunday 17th of March 2013 10:27:28 PM
ozjohn said
10:33 PM Mar 17, 2013
Living a more active life I guess.
justcruisin01 said
10:37 PM Mar 17, 2013
ozjohn wrote:
Living a more active life I guess.
Very true & watching a lot less tv crap.
GaryKelly said
10:44 PM Mar 17, 2013
I started using an Apple 2e computer in 1984, bought my own Amstrad in 1986, and started using the internet in 1991. There's a plethora of ISPs available now but back then there was only one - Compuserve Pacific. My first monthly bill was $5000. I questioned it and the company sent me a printout of all my on line connections. It was bigger than both Sydney telephone directories. My next month's bill was $2500. Even my IBM compatible 286 computer from Dick Smith Electronics (when he still owned the store at St Leonards) with a 10MB (yes, 10MB) hard drive cost $3000. My Canon Bubblejet printer cost $1100. It took a few years before computers and internet connection became affordable. At first it was outrageous in the extreme. Now I pay $30 a month for 5GB wireless connection. I have 2 laptops, a Toshiba that cost a grand and a smaller Acer that cost about $400.
In the mid '90s, I had a 486 (the last of the 86s before the first Pentium). I remember the techie installing Windows using 1.4MB floppies, about 150 disks. Took him all day. A lot has changed since then. But I couldn't live without my internet.
Happywanderer said
11:55 PM Mar 17, 2013
I would have spent more time out in the garden which I am unable to do so much now. Would love to be out there but my aches and pains don't allow it. I never had a computer at all until after I moved to Aus in 1997. My daughter had a Commodore 64 for playing games on, but other than that I knew nothing about computers at all. I went to classes to learn so I could get a job in an office and went from there.
brickies said
11:56 PM Mar 17, 2013
Maybe not has well informed
EllenajoeL said
05:16 AM Mar 18, 2013
Olley46 wrote:
How did we spend our time before we had a computer, Lance C
-- Edited by Olley46 on Sunday 17th of March 2013 03:07:48 PM
Personally, pre-laptop, I know I spent more time in human-to-human, speech-driven conversation and less time in front of 'a screen'....
(I often wonder what the objective difference is; as an outsider; between how a tv affects personal human interaction and a computer...excepting that a computer is a more modern 'excuse' for not talking/bonding with those in your presence).
GaryKelly said
03:38 PM Mar 18, 2013
I disagree, Olley. Computers, for me at least, are interactive. I know a helluva lot more peeps now than I ever did watching television. And they don't raid my fridge or complain if I haven't shaved.
Cloak said
11:51 PM Mar 18, 2013
I used to have a PDP11 then migrated to a TRS 80. Now I have a Mac. The PDP11 was a chick magnet. lol
vixen said
09:54 AM Mar 30, 2013
OzJohn
Literally "laughing out loud!!!" I came into this world with nothing and I still have most of it!!! OMG! Funny! True!
-- Edited by vixen on Saturday 30th of March 2013 09:55:33 AM
How did we spend our time before we had a computer,I just read in the last 24 hours there was over 2000 people had been on this sight that,s a lot of grey hair isent it great,I hardly read at all until I bought a computer ,now my blue eye,s are turning gray as well,love it.
Lance C
-- Edited by Olley46 on Sunday 17th of March 2013 03:07:48 PM
I had to earn a living fixing phones, TVs and videos instead !!!
Just as well computers came along, because it's no longer economical to fix other consumer electronics, just throw it away and buy another piece of cheap chinese crap....
-- Edited by vk6tnc on Sunday 17th of March 2013 10:27:28 PM
Living a more active life I guess.
Very true & watching a lot less tv crap.
In the mid '90s, I had a 486 (the last of the 86s before the first Pentium). I remember the techie installing Windows using 1.4MB floppies, about 150 disks. Took him all day. A lot has changed since then. But I couldn't live without my internet.
I never had a computer at all until after I moved to Aus in 1997. My daughter had a Commodore 64 for playing games on, but other than that I knew nothing about computers at all.
I went to classes to learn so I could get a job in an office and went from there.
Personally, pre-laptop, I know I spent more time in human-to-human, speech-driven conversation and less time in front of 'a screen'....
(I often wonder what the objective difference is; as an outsider; between how a tv affects personal human interaction and a computer...excepting that a computer is a more modern 'excuse' for not talking/bonding with those in your presence).
OzJohn
Literally "laughing out loud!!!"
I came into this world with nothing and I still have most of it!!!
OMG! Funny! True!
-- Edited by vixen on Saturday 30th of March 2013 09:55:33 AM