[bookshare-discuss] Re: ot early computers
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
Typewriters, groan. You young folk don't realize how lucky you are to have
computers, where it's so easy to make corrections. E, I don't know if you used
an electric typewriter where you could go back and make corrections with
relative ease, but George and I remember manual typewriters--even before
correcto-tape. But even with correcto-tape--if you made errors you had to redo
the complete page because professors wouldn't accept anything messy--even high
school teachers wouldn't. We bought an Apple as soon as we could when our
daughters were entering high school, so they wouldn't go through what we had.
But even then, my "gifted" daughter twice or three times didn't save--even
though her mother had warned her to save frequesntly, especially after the
first time she lost a paper. You'd think she'd have learned after the first
time. The second or third was when she was almost finished with her paper, or
course the night before it was due--and no hard copy.
It's amazing she grew up. smile
G.Cindy
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--- On Thu, 6/19/08, rita weyler <ritaweyler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: rita weyler <ritaweyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: ot early computers
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 7:54 AM
> I remember doing the same. My mom hated getting letters
> because I was
> always losing my train of thought.
> Rita
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:24 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] ot early computers
>
>
> > The first computer I got was an Apple II E.
> >
> > It was around 1982 or so and I had already had been
> working for six years
> > or so.
> >
> > I got through college and my graduate courses using a
> typewriter, open
> > reel tape recorder and casettes when they first came
> out.
> >
> > Oh course I used a braille writer and lots of paper to
> write my senior
> > thesis in economics first draft. Then I typed it. Then
> my friend clean
> > typed it so it had no typos and so forth.
> >
> > E.
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