No-tech; was: Funny
Niels Fanøe
NFA at maconomy.dk
Sat Apr 1 10:10:46 PST 2006
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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-> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com
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-> 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
->
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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
->
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-> 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!
->
->
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-> [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!
->
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