Ink-flipping and rubber band projectiles... I guess that'd be the lo-tech
forerunner of the computer virus? ;o)
-Niels
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- On Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth
- Sent: 31. marts 2006 16:11
- To: framers@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
-
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- m] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill
- Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:11 AM
- To: Roberts, Katie; framers@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
-
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- Behalf Of Roberts, Katie
- Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:32 PM
- To: framers@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!
-
-
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ers.com] On Behalf Of Joe Malin
- Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:51 PM
- To: Gillian Flato; framers@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
-
