Remember when

Ya, I’ve never really chewed them…. bite em off too short and yiiiikes!!!

 

I did and my fingers don't work well together,
I barely passed that class.

 

I do, but my typewriter had a fancy amber monochromatic monitor.

 

Used to like long nails scratching my back.

 

I took it cuz no homework

No monitor. I had to put actual paper and ink ribbons in the typewriter I used…. Can you believe that ancient shit??

Who doesn’t!!

 

I had one. I couldn't type on it very fast without the keys getting stuck together.

 

Ironic wasn’t it…. Had to get up to so many words per minute, but the keys got all jammed up!!

 

Johnny Quest!

 

When I took typing, we had one electric in the class. It was a pain when the keys would get stuck on the manual ones

 

It was actually a requirement for me to pass typing to get a high school diploma. At the time, something I thought was the most useless class I had to take...

Now, when I took typing, the personal computer was a TI-99/4A, A Commodore 64, or maybe a PC XT if you were lucky. The computer lab had some Commodore Pets, and terminals to connect to a main frame for things like programming in Pascal, Fortran, or heaven help you - Cobol. You really didn't use them much in Grades 8-12.

By the time I got to college, I *needed* to type. No longer was longhand an acceptable method for submitting papers, and the personal computer had evolved into a 386. Having a word processor was a life-saver. And knowing how to type was something I took for granted until someone (professor) walked by me while plunking away at a keyboard and said, "Wow... You know how to type..." After that, I was thankful that I learned to type on an old manual Olivetti.

 

I had typing class in middle school. By the time I was in high school, most of the work had to be submitted being typed up, with correct margins, font and spacing. I learned html and Basic in highschool. I also went from mechanical drawing with a pencil to CAD with a plotter.

 

To this day, my college still teaches manual drafting to freshman engineers... Only after manual drafting is CAD taught. The reason? Things become much clearer when you need to think ahead and plan out a drawing on a sheet. You also learn tricks of the trade that translate WONDERFULLY to the world of CAD...

I learned BASIC and PASCAL by the end of high school. I had to learn FORTRAN-77 in college. Added ANSI C/C++ by the time I was a senior. The World Wide Web really didn't exist until I was in grad school. Hell, Wilbur didn't come out until after I finished grad school. There was nothing on the web. You wanted to find something or "chat", you used UNIX talk or posted to USENET.

I still have all my old-school drafting tools...

 

10th grade, typing/word processing in 1988. I can still type fast as hell and almost zero mistakes.

 

I dunno how to type. I do the old two-finger stuff to get by. My first computer was a Radio Shack CoCo. That lasted a week. Then an Atari 800 and TWO floppy 5-1/4" drives. It had a 6502 processor. At the time of the Atari I had a modem... 110bps dialup. That was sufficient for local BBS's and my email account.. anybody remember CompuServe??? Then Hayes 300bps then 1200bps modems. Then I had an 8088 IBM clone, then an 8086 Compaq DeskPro. Added a math coprocessor to that one. My very first hard drive was a 20mb, bought from Michael Dell, when he was still selling from his dorm room at UTA. Company name: Hard Drives Limited. That drive cost $700, when drives first started getting "cheap". It was made in USA, by MicroScience. I have the ORIGINAL version Microsoft Mouse in a closet upstairs.
I do wanna go back... but not to those days. I wanna go back to the 1960's and early 1970's . . .

 

I remember CompuServe well. One of the first online "destination" sites. A form still exists today: https://www.compuserve.com/

My first paid site was Prodigy, by IBM. Since I was an IBM employee, I got a good discount on the membership.

And then there was AOL ("You've got mail!"). They too still have an online presence.

 

that ride is soo fun!!!

 

Who knew it would be a skill that would be so useful later in life .

I did things to trade to have the smart girls do my typing !

 

what kind of things?!?!

 

If you lived in the country i rode my bicycle to every farm within 5 miles doing anything to make money.

If I wanted anything I had to earn the money myself.

Has anyone ever candled eggs to make sure they did not have embryos ?