Typewriter / Computer
Nov 20th 2012 | 9:46 pm
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
Oh please, don't go there! I remember that awful pink correcting fluid for Gestetner stencils that didn't actually work, so if you got almost to the end of a long document and made a mistake you had to start all over again. And every time I tried to use the duplicator I ended up with ink up to the elbows - machinery and me just don't mix.
And those pencil type erasers for rubbing out typing errors that rubbed a hole in the paper as often as not, and you had to remember to put a sheet of paper underneath the carbon paper if you were making copies so as not to smudge the copies.
These youngsters don't know they're born!
And those pencil type erasers for rubbing out typing errors that rubbed a hole in the paper as often as not, and you had to remember to put a sheet of paper underneath the carbon paper if you were making copies so as not to smudge the copies.
These youngsters don't know they're born!
Nov 20th 2012 | 11:38 pm
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
And they say older people don't cope well with change!
Nov 21st 2012 | 12:11 am
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Easy peasy! We, ahem, more mature people did actually move on from the stone age, you know. Having learned the old methods (plus Pitman shorthand, I still have my RSA 140 wpm certificate) I then had to learn the bewildering succession of new technology introduced into the office environment from the 1970s onwards. Word processing, databases, email, electronic calendars, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, Customer Relationship Management Systems, you name it.
And they say older people don't cope well with change!
And they say older people don't cope well with change!
Nov 21st 2012 | 12:50 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
Remember 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog'?
What seems funny now is how hard some people found it to adapt to wordprocessors when they came along. I remember a big debate about whether to buy Wangs and Apples for the office.
I thought Dom would have mentioned smoke signals and semaphore. We used both when I was a girl guide.
What seems funny now is how hard some people found it to adapt to wordprocessors when they came along. I remember a big debate about whether to buy Wangs and Apples for the office.
I thought Dom would have mentioned smoke signals and semaphore. We used both when I was a girl guide.
But you could try flashing light over the horizon - by bouncing off a dark cloud. And it is possible.
If you were to listen to "the quick brown fox jumps" etc on a teleprinter or radio circuit you would realise that there is a certain cadence to it as you become used to it, but its prime purpose is to test every letter of the alphabet is printing. But not as instantly recognisable as RYRYRY which is part of a normal test tape.
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Nov 21st 2012 | 1:00 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
We could well have been running Locomotive - the company that provided the software to Amstrad who did more for the boom in low cost word processing than any other company. They saw WP as a different field to PC's, which were number crunchers at your desk instead of using a terminal from a mainframe.
Some of the earliest LAN's were British, built by company's like ICI, BP and the like, using Sinclair ZX81's. The large number of enquiries for such networking led to Chris Curry going into overload and employing his uni chum Herman Houser to reduce the load back in the mid 70's.
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Nov 21st 2012 | 1:03 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
Easy peasy! We, ahem, more mature people did actually move on from the stone age, you know. Having learned the old methods (plus Pitman shorthand, I still have my RSA 140 wpm certificate) I then had to learn the bewildering succession of new technology introduced into the office environment from the 1970s onwards. Word processing, databases, email, electronic calendars, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, Customer Relationship Management Systems, you name it.
And they say older people don't cope well with change!
And they say older people don't cope well with change!
Remember "As Easy As" - a spreadsheet programme that was supposed to be as easy to operate as Lotus 123 (expensive) spreadsheet
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Nov 21st 2012 | 1:08 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
most telex's didnt need tapes usually quite short, only needed a tape if it was long or important or needed to go to more than one addressee.
The first time I tried to make a figure of 8 round the thumb and little finger
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Nov 21st 2012 | 1:16 am
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Nov 21st 2012 | 1:45 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
Nov 21st 2012 | 3:01 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
Nov 21st 2012 | 10:56 am
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Re: Typewriter / Computer
had those rather flimsy 5inch discs where you stored your work, no hard drive
those were the days
