Originally Posted by
slim1836
We had 80 line punch cards where I worked in the 70's, key punch operator was the best, never missed a stroke. Computer room was climate controlled and tape driven. Phone dial up and boxes of cards fed into the computer but if the phone link went down, the process started over. I hated those times, glad I was a cartographic draftsman.
I did take Basic Computer in college but hated it so I went a different way. Basic, Fortran, and Cobalt could kiss it in my book, I wanted the outdoors so I went with construction inspection.
Skip to today, My computer runs off Windows 7 and has been dying for years. I need another computer badly but they want to sell you a computer, then have you pay to update it yearly. Nope, not going to do that, it's like paying to rent programming. I'm not smart enough to understand all that's involved now a days. I just want a computer that works when I turn it on.
Same with printers, I have gone through several and each one has gone south. Same issues, the print looks like carp or does not print at all. Granted, I don't use it much, but when I need to, it doesn't work. Throw it out and get another and a year later, same issue. I have run the "clean heads" program until I'm blue in the face, cleaned the ink faces, but there is only so much I can do. I am printer-less as I type.
Same with internet service. I am wireless and have two extenders to help boost the signal, what a jumble of carp. I am offline more than on.
I hate techno stuff but most of us rely on them, wish I knew what to do. I just don't understand all this stuff, I'm just a simple man trying to make things work. Like Dillon stuff, buy once, but what to buy? I'll bet that others are in the same boat.
Slim