Ink-flipping and rubber band projectiles... I guess that'd be the lo-tech forerunner of the computer virus? ;o)
-Niels -> -----Original Message----- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] -> On Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth -> Sent: 31. marts 2006 16:11 -> To: framers at FrameUsers.com -> Subject: RE: No-tech; was: Funny -> -> Fountain pen!?? -> We had monitors before anyone could afford a fountain pen. -> Ink monitors. -> It was their job each morning for a week to fill up the -> inkwell on each desk. Then we dipped our nibbed pens into -> the inkwells and started to write. Nibbed pens were fun. You -> could use them to flick ink across the room (the walls and -> ceiling bore testimony of this), or, if preferred, onto the -> back of the girl in front. In combination with a strong -> rubber band they also made fairly lethal weapons. Can't do -> any of those fun things these days... -> -> And I still have a Parker 61 fountain pen that was given to -> me in 1969, and it still works fine. -> -> Roger Shuttleworth -> London, Ontario -> Canada -> -> -----Original Message----- -> From: -> framers-bounces+rshuttleworth=activplant.com at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+rshuttleworth=activplant.com at lists.fr ameusers.co -> m] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill -> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:11 AM -> To: Roberts, Katie; framers at FrameUsers.com -> Subject: OT: No-tech; was: Funny -> -> Ah yes, the good old(en) days of low-tech. Or maybe I -> should say no-tech. -> -> I wrote my first reports with a hand-held device. Nope, not -> a Palm Pilot or a hand held PC. This hand-held device was -> called a FOUNTAIN PEN. -> Remember -> fountain pens? Smeary, smelly ink that got all over your -> fingers and took forever to dry. You had to write each -> letter by hand. And there was no such thing as white-out. -> Make a mistake? Do the whooole page over. -> :-( -> -> Ball point pens came out a few years later. And white out -> too. Wheee. -> Calculators did not come out 'till after I was out of -> college. Changed the world - if you could afford one, that is. -> -> We use CAD to design things today. Back in college we used -> something called a drafting board. And we used hand-held -> devices called PENCILS. They were better than fountain pens -> because you could actually erase your mistakes and not have -> to do the whole page over. :-) -> -> The first computer I ever used had tubes in it. It cost a -> million dollars and would add, subtract, multiply, and -> divide. Programming was in assembly language. Punch cards -> and green-bar printouts. Advanced technology? -> Well, -> maybe. Make mistake? Do the whole punch card over. And -> watch out for hanging chad. Whoops, no, we didn't have -> hanging chad back then. That was invented in the "election" of 2000. -> -> Kids today don't know how easy they have it. Hey, kids 10 -> years ago don't know how easy they had it, either. -> -> The fun (and funny) thing about all this is that every -> generation says the same thing about how easy their kids -> have it. And it'll probably be true 100 years from now. -> -> Diane Gaskill -> Lockheed-Martin Space Systems -> -> -----Original Message----- -> From: framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameuse rs.com]On -> Behalf Of Roberts, Katie -> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:32 PM -> To: framers at FrameUsers.com -> Subject: RE: Funny -> -> I'm 47 and have been taking on-line classes since 2002. It -> is great! It is so much better to be able to attend classes -> in your pajamas. Way back, in the long, long ago, I had to -> type my reports on a manual typewriter and depended heavily -> on white out or the correction paper. -> Heck, I even used a telex machine in one of my first jobs. -> Thank heavens for technology. -> -> Katie Roberts -> Ohmart/VEGA Corp. -> Cincinnati, OH -> 513-272-0524x167 -> "The important thing is not to stop questioning." -> Albert Einstein -> -> Vote for Char James-Tanny for STC International Secretary! -> -> -> -----Original Message----- -> From: framers-bounces+kroberts=ohmartvega.com at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+kroberts=ohmartvega.com at lists.frameus ers.com] On Behalf Of Joe Malin -> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:51 PM -> To: Gillian Flato; framers at FrameUsers.com -> Subject: RE: Funny -> -> What really *bugs* me (and I'm *much* older than 30) is how -> good science students in college got it now. -> -> I majored in Chemistry in undergrad. I had to type science -> papers on a portable typewriter, make photocopies of -> instrument outputs or data plots and then do a massive -> paste-up job. We had primitive calculators, but also relied -> on slide rules. Need something from an instrument or a test? -> Get up at 2 am and *walk to the source*. Ugh. -> -> Did computer science in grad school. On a mainframe (double -> ugh). No dial-up; had ride downtown to the computer lab to -> get on a terminal, then hang around until 2 AM so turnaround -> on jobs was less than 20 minutes. Had to wait until *3 AM* -> to get access to the computer graphics equipment. -> -> I wouldn't wish any of it on a blind dog. I'm not "better" -> for having done it the hard way, just probably more burned -> out and less educated. -> What frustrates *me* is that a modern CS student gets to -> have an ultra-powerful computer *plus* the Internet, and do -> so many *fun things*!!! :( Boo-hoo. I wanna be a student -> again! Boy, if Doom 2 had been around when I was a college -> student, I'd still be in school. -> -> -> Joe Malin -> Technical Writer -> (408)625-1623 -> jmalin at tuvox.com -> www.tuvox.com -> The views expressed in this document are those of the -> sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of TuVox, Inc. -> -> -----Original Message----- -> From: framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com ] On Behalf Of Gillian Flato -> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:22 AM -> To: framers at FrameUsers.com -> Subject: OT: Funny -> -> Just thought you guys might enjoy this... -> -> Hard Times related by a 30 year old. -> -> When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their -> tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were -> growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school -> every morning... uphill BOTH ways... through year 'round -> blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings on their backs... -> to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a -> straight-A average, despite their full-time, after-school -> job at the local textile mill... where they worked for 35 -> cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death! -> -> -> _______________________________________________ -> -> -> You are currently subscribed to Framers as -> rshuttleworth at activplant.com. -> -> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. -> -> To unsubscribe send a blank email to -> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com -> or visit -> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rshuttlew -> orth%40acti -> vplant.com -> -> Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit -> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -> -> ------------------------------------------------------- -> -> The information in this email is confidential and is -> intended solely for the addressee. 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