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Reading your Emails . . . Work or Shirk?
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SueCar | Report | 3 Oct 2014 14:37 |
Reading Shirley-i-g-t-h-o-i's post about not getting a reply from the priest made me think of another related issue: |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 Oct 2014 14:44 |
I do find it strange when people announce the fact that they don't use computers or tablets or mobiles as if it is something to be proud of. OK I don't have a problem if they have no need of them or don't want them but surely it is nothing to be proud of? |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 3 Oct 2014 14:54 |
My Mum is very 'suspicious' of technology and thinks using computers is a black art. She regards it as 'cheating' look up answers to things, even though I tell her it is the same as using a dictionary or encyclopedia! I have also told her that it is not a question of just pressing a button, you have to know what you're looking for. And how she has benefitted from us using technology - from looking up old pictures of her home town, finding details about old friends, ordering things for her, organising carers and answering medical queries :-D She goes quiet when I tell her that - she is nearly 91 so perhaps can be forgiven ;-) |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 Oct 2014 16:22 |
I am sure if my mum was alive she would be utterly confused with it all. She died in 1994 well before computers became common place. She was still thinking the TV was wonderful!! Bless him, I wish my Dad was alive to see all the modern technology, he would have embrased it and loved it. He died in 2001. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 3 Oct 2014 16:31 |
OH isn't into technology either ,he hates the phone and clams up if he has to answer it |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 3 Oct 2014 21:32 |
We have 2 desk top computers and 1 laptop at home |
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LadyScozz | Report | 4 Oct 2014 08:14 |
It makes me laugh when the younger ones show astonishment at us "oldies" using computers. They seem to think they invented them. |
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Graham | Report | 4 Oct 2014 10:33 |
In two weeks time it will be exactly 143 years since 'the father of the computer' died. |
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Ron2 | Report | 4 Oct 2014 18:47 |
I'm 73, I started using main frame computer belonging to local council in 1974. Went online about 2000 but using a TV with internet access then son gave me his Windows 98 PC about 2002 and now on my 3rd "Tower" Have a mobile with camera and can access 'net if want from that.. Friends of ours wont (apart from wife with mobile) make use of any modern aids. They refuse to use ATMs, Teletext et al Their son gave em PC but it got binned, son gave them satnav - chucked in drawer, gave his father a mobile - chucked in drawer. The guy has little idea of wot most "buttons" on his car dash are for and wont even alter car clock when needed. Whilst the wife has mobile she keys in number she want to fone manually even tho son put all numbers she uses in the Contacts List on fone. She doesn't use camera on fone nor can she text. Can't persuade em to "get with it" - their decision and they're happy that way. Incidentally my sons PC plus a printer plus a scanner (no 3in1s those days) cost him over £1300 in 1998! I usually only get online in the evenings but make good use of Face Book - family and ex mil mates on there plus other ex mil sites |
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SueCar | Report | 4 Oct 2014 19:00 |
Liked the bit about nothing new under the sun. Not sure how computers have been here before though or am I misinterpreting . . . |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 4 Oct 2014 21:52 |
I was well and truly told off by someone on this site years ago when I posted that I first used a computer in 1963 .................. my professor at university had one. The "works" completely filled a wall in his office. |
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SueCar | Report | 4 Oct 2014 22:36 |
My first proper job in 1975 we used to answer the phone to customers and if it was a query about their bill we'd ask them to hold while we went across to check it on the computer - there were two between forty clerks. The people who worked in IT dept had to be physically fit because the magnetic tapes were big and heavy. :-( |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 4 Oct 2014 22:46 |
OH first used computers in 1970 too, working for the MOD. Punched card interface, no screens or nice editors :-), Even when I started my HND course in 1980, most of our large programming assignments were done on punched cards - great fun, especially when one of my friends accidentally dropped their substantial stack of cards from the third floor of the building. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 4 Oct 2014 23:06 |
oh gosh ................... I remember those reels of magnetic tape! |
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