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News Briefs 28-08-2014

Keep Calm & Shift your Paradigm.

Quote of the Day:

“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”

~Alan Watts

  1. apple
    Ok kids this is how old I am, because when I went to school I had those computers in class to learn how to type sentences and all I remember is the old teachers were so set in their ways and hated that the curriculum changed to now include computers. No printers and yes those massive floppy disks the size of dinner plates. I remember those and all 100KB they could store!!! Thank God we’ve advanced farther than the video predicted. I found it funny at some parts it reminded me a bit of Monty Python probably because it was so ridiculous. Ahhh, good times…as I type on a seven year old Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard…..

    😛

    1. “When I went to school”
      He. Noticed you didn’t specify whether it was grade school or high school. All I can say is that one my first written homeworks in college was typed in one of those trusty Macs 😉

      1. elementary
        Which for me in my town was considered K-8 but by the time I got to 7 and 8 we had more advanced Macs. So…early 1990s was about Kindergarden. To kids today I’m old, which is sad because I’m only 27. But yes I did have those big floppy disks, most likely because the school couldn’t afford newer devices. Didn’t have a Mac personally til college for my design and have had one ever since for work.

        1. You whippersnapper you!
          My first computer was an Apple IIe. Beauty of a machine, really, but the only Apple computer I ever owned.

          In college I learned CAD with Macs, but when I realized the industry standard was AutoCAD which back then was strictly PC, I said farewell to the Think Different cult, never to return again 😉

          Heck, when I found the chance to get me a tablet, I went with a Samsung Galaxy. Android all the way, baybeh! 😛

          1. I have both
            I use both PC and mac in my work and I too have an Android tablet. I can’t afford to be all Apple. I also learned CAD and AutoCAD. I’ve learned on both Mac and PC to use graphics programs, I use a Mac at the office but a PC at home for free lance stuff.

      1. My first year of college ’71
        My first year of college ’71 there were no PC’s yet, but a friend of mine was learning Cobol. Computer classes proudly displayed those big banners of words typed out pointillistically. Everyone was saying what a revolution computing was going to be, but no one seemed to know what forms it would take. I didn’t grok computers until 1997 when I forced myself to learn CAD/CAM in order to run a machining center I had to make complexly shaped wooden pieces for my elaborately shaped Sam Maloof style chairs. I was not naturally aptituded for computers but like a lot of us fell in love with it all anyway. Now I have trouble remembering my old pre-computer self and orientation.

        1. Born to be Wifi
          I always had a thing for computers, and luckily my parents fostered the passion. I learned BASIC with a Commodore 64 and some other IBM PC I can’t remember. Unfortunately, I wasn’t THAT good with coding that I could have become some millionaire during the DotCom boom; in the end I knew I was more comfortable as a user.

          I praise the day computers were starting to be used to draw. I always HATED drafting with fineliners, because I was never very clean and I tended to leave smudges all over the paper. I was rather good with marker renderings though. In industrial design they teach this mix technique with markers and pastels that kinda looks like aerograph, and my renderings compensated my poor skills with my mockups and sloppy prototypes.

          But everything comes with a price. It amused me how I used to think CAD drawing was FASTER than traditional drafting –it could be, if the damn clients didn’t ask for 10 effing different proposals in their projects!

        2. Good ole ’71
          Buying hip-hugger bell bottoms and going to a Moody Blues concert in Memphis. ’72 wasn’t bad either — an acid-fueled Elton John concert at some university in Alabama.

          But back to those early computers that filled freezing clean rooms. Yep, I remember those 2-foot-wide x 12-foot-long light green and white striped banners, sometimes with faces made of all different characters – if the budding programmers were really proficient. For reasons I can’t remember, all that’s associated with Mad Max magazines and dayglow posters that frequently said Keep on Truckin’.

          I don’t think I even saw a computer again until someone gave me an old pc in …err …2000, I think. I got a dial-up connection, and the second website I ever went to was The Daily Grail.

          The computer was so pathetic, I started trying to upgrade it by buying individual parts, which never worked, at Office Depot. Then one day, it was as if someone put one of those ‘thinking caps’ from the original Star Trek on me, and I suddenly decided I understood how to build my own pc. I bought a tower and all the parts to go in it (for about 1/3 the cost of a comparable store-bought), and just put it together myself. I had to hire someone to load Windows onto it, but after that, the damned thing worked great for the next 10 years. Nostalgia makes me wish I could find a compatible new hard-drive for it.

          1. Wow!

            I don’t think I even saw a computer again until someone gave me an old pc in …err …2000, I think. I got a dial-up connection, and the second website I ever went to was The Daily Grail.

            Wow. Talk about following your destiny 🙂

            Nostalgia makes me wish I could find a compatible new hard-drive for it.

            Oh I know all about your digital nostalgia, Missus AOL 😛

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