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Date Posted: 17:16:10 02/01/02 Fri
Author: M.C.
Author Host/IP: 209.214.129.20
Subject: Do you really want to know? *grinning*
In reply to: Marlene 's message, "Computers" on 08:23:49 02/01/02 Fri

Fun question. I was a mechanical designer for an elevator company and one day my boss came in and said...we've got a mainframe dedicated CADD (computer aided drafting and design) computer system. I want you to learn it and set up a drawing system. This was before pc's, not only me, but nobody I knew had ever touched one of the critters. No training of course, just manuals in what at the time looked like greek. I got assurances from my boss that if I destroyed it the insurance would cover it. LOL!!! Then set about by trial and error. And there were a bunch of errors and language you don't want to know about, but heck...it's how you learn. They were pleased with the final results and I got the opportunity to enter the computer age well before the masses. Cool job. :)

Fun aside, about 3 months after we got it termites infested the room it was in and you talk about a buggy computer. I learned there and then that the company insurance was good. *grinning* At that time, those systems cost millions of dollars.

Then while I was still working there I went to college, new into the computer age and before computer science classes. If you wanted to program, you majored in electronics and specialized in software rather than hardware. We were programming in FORTRAN at the time. State of the art. LOL!!! It really was. We had to do a simple music file and I left out my timing elements (you had to program in how long to hold a note), so of course I got this sound blur. The music was supposed to be 'Ode to Joy'. A classmate quipped that it sounded more like 'Ode to Qualudes' *grinning*. I made a lot of great friends for life in those 2 am computer lab sessions, drank a lot of bad coffee, ate a lot of machine food and had fun.

I got my first 'internet' experience in college. It was new and experimental but we were hooked up on the old military system to a college in Australia (Ellie...did I chat with you?). I'd sit up and chat with these folks clear across the world until 4 am in the computer lab. My mind was boggled with the concept of it. I thought, if this ever takes off and becomes available to everyone, what an incredible resource!!! Of course it did and that's why I'm here tonight. :)

Boy the memories that brought back, Marlene. Thank you.

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Re: My son had given me my first computer (his old one) -- Zoey's Mom, 17:43:27 02/01/02 Fri
- Re: Now why didn't this work, Diane? -- Zoey's Mom, 17:45:21 02/01/02 Fri
  - Re: It did work on another website. Maybe this board doesn't support these. (NT) -- Zoey's Mom, 17:47:34 02/01/02 Fri
    - Re: IJust tried it on another message board and it worked -- Zoey's Mom, 17:53:06 02/01/02 Fri
      - Let me try something Faye... -- Diane, 17:56:19 02/01/02 Fri
        Re: What happened.... What did I do wrong?? (NT) -- Zoey's Mom, 17:57:21 02/01/02 Fri
      - Simple adjustment required :) -- Diane, 18:01:33 02/01/02 Fri
        Re: Gonna try it again! -- Zoey's MOm, 18:03:36 02/01/02 Fri
        Re: Okay I put < before it and> after it. Was that right, cause it didn't work? (NT) -- Zoey's Mom, 18:06:25 02/01/02 Fri
        Faye you have to add the img src= bit - then you'll have it :) -- Diane, 18:13:28 02/01/02 Fri
        Opps - it didn't like that, try this -- Diane, 18:06:01 02/01/02 Fri
        Re: Simple adjustment required :) -- Kat, 18:06:52 02/01/02 Fri
        Re One more time -- Zoey's Mom, 18:18:02 02/01/02 Fri
        WAAAHOOOOOOOO!!!!! (NT) -- Look at that - good stuff! :))), 18:42:04 02/01/02 Fri
        Re: Simple adjustment required :) -- Kat, 18:07:52 02/01/02 Fri
        When all else fails, go back and look at your HTML notes -- Kat, 18:08:43 02/01/02 Fri
  - Re: Now why didn't this work, Diane? -- Kat [Tiger's Mommy], 18:02:31 02/01/02 Fri
    - Re: How did you do your's Diane?? Sorry I started this... -- Zoey's Mom, 18:10:42 02/01/02 Fri
      - Tell you what - I'll email it to you okay? -- Diane, 18:14:46 02/01/02 Fri
        Re: I did it, Diane. Go up to the first post!! -- Zoey's Mom, 18:34:50 02/01/02 Fri
        Yep - same thing with pics :) (NT) -- Diane, 18:40:49 02/01/02 Fri
        I missed all the fun. Gonna try... -- Marlene, 20:09:15 02/01/02 Fri
        The devil made me do it. Faye if you can do these, you can post pics. Cinchy! (NT) -- Marlene, 20:10:41 02/01/02 Fri
        I like it -- anonomous, 09:27:50 02/02/02 Sat
MC remember midi? -- Monika, 04:50:01 02/02/02 Sat
- OMG...my first home computer -- M.C., 07:51:01 02/02/02 Sat

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