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There wasn’t an Internet when I was growing up. We had one computer (an old Wang model) for my entire high school and you had to sign up to use it. I never got a chance. I couldn’t imagine going to college without computers, and having to type out papers! Ugh!
Leigha wrote:emerald212 wrote:Perforated continuous computer paper. 😯 Remember that?
SilverArrow wrote:OMG, yes! Those printers were so loud. Where they the dot-matrix? Or am I thinking of another printer?
Dot Matrix printers are loud by modern standards, but they were real quiet compared to the daisywheel or golfball typewriters that one could hook up to a computer. Teletype machines were loud too.
I still use a dot matrix printer for printing out daily and monthly reports from my point of sale machine, so I use perforated computer paper. Last time I checked, you could still get this stuff from Sam’s, so there must be a lot of other people out there stuck in the 20th Century.
Does anyone use a typewriter?
The Castle [Dave wrote:“] compared to the daisywheel
Thank you, Dave! I was driving myself crazy trying to remember the name of my first printer, the daisywheel! 😆
My parents use to buy the encyclopedias that came out in volumes (two letters to a volume) at the food store. We had to switch brands half way through because our food store stopped carrying them. I still own them (and occasionally use them) 😳
😆 My parents used to buy those at the grocery too!!! We ended up with about 5 different types of the encyclopedia for the letter “A”. We only managed to get the entire set in one type. 😆
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There wasn’t an Internet when I was growing up. We had one computer (an old Wang model) for my entire high school and you had to sign up to use it. I never got a chance. I couldn’t imagine going to college without computers, and having to type out papers! Ugh!
Eek! I did have to do that… and if you proofed your paper and found a mistake early on that would change the spacing onto the next page, then you’d have to decide whether or not it was worth correcting & retyping the whole 20 page paper over *groan* 😆 Of course, I used a friend’s computer in college and after writing the whole paper I hit save and lost it and had to not only retype, but recreate! I do not make that mistake anymore.boskydragon wrote:Quote:emerald212 Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:49 am Post subject:
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There wasn’t an Internet when I was growing up. We had one computer (an old Wang model) for my entire high school and you had to sign up to use it. I never got a chance. I couldn’t imagine going to college without computers, and having to type out papers! Ugh!
Eek! I did have to do that… and if you proofed your paper and found a mistake early on that would change the spacing onto the next page, then you’d have to decide whether or not it was worth correcting & retyping the whole 20 page paper over *groan* 😆 Of course, I used a friend’s computer in college and after writing the whole paper I hit save and lost it and had to not only retype, but recreate! I do not make that mistake anymore.Why didn’t it save?
Ha! I used to just say “computers hate me”, but really, you couldn’t (and I don’t know if you can now, I won’t try it again) type in a 20-page paper and then hit save once at the end. And back then I had no idea how to try to find a lost paper in the computer. G-R-O-A-N.
Jasmine wrote:I would think they would be more prone to doing odd things way back when…
What, before Windows? 😆 Windows initiated computers doing odd things, I though.
The first computer we got, we had to type win.exe in DOS to start up Windows.
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