No-tech; was: Funny
pearlrosenberg at nc.rr.com
pearlrosenberg at nc.rr.com
Fri Mar 31 07:09:38 PST 2006
Fountain pens were a special delight to those of us who are left-
handed. I'd drag my hand over the still-wet ink, smearing my paper and
depositing an ugly blue stain on the side of my hand.
Pearl Rosenberg
TeleHealth Services
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Shuttleworth <rshuttleworth at activplant.com>
Date: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:11 am
Subject: RE: No-tech; was: Funny
To: framers at FrameUsers.com
> 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
> rubberband 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.frameusers.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
> mistakesand
> 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.
> Thatwas
> 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.frameusers.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.frameusers.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
> sciencestudents 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
> graphicsequipment.
>
> 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
> BehalfOf 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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