1: Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it?
2: Do you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket?
3: About what year did you start using computers?
4: What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with?
5: What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade?
My Answers:
1: Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it? No, the last one went when we sold the other house 7 years ago.
2: Do you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket? Yes, I have a desk phone next to me as I write this.
3: About what year did you start using computers? I was an early adopter, probably 1983, A Radio Shack Color Computer II.
4: What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with? Basic, I even did some programing.
5: What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade? Electric flight, the pioneers are starting to fly larger and larger craft.
Please share your answers in the comments.
Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it? I don't know I ever owned one.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket? Yes. I still have a land line. Comes in handy when the power is out and one can't charge your phone. Only my family and inner sanctum has the number
About what year did you start using computers? We had classes in middle school if I recall.
What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with? Hell, who knows, one of those big set ups, with the green screen tv, disk drive and keyboard do hickies.
What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade? Autonomous vehicles. I wouldn't be surprised if the 2020, 2030's will be the decade in which autonomous vehicles of all kinds cars, taxis, trucks, and even ships become truly autonomous and commercially viable.
Waymo!
Delete1: Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it? No
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket? No
3: About what year did you start using computers? 1983
4: What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with? Anything would be a guess. I can’t remember.
5: What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade? Robots with AI
Rossi the robot housekeeper.
Delete1. We have an antique Woodstock typewriter. It's for display only. I think 1990 was last time I used any typewriter.
ReplyDelete2. No.
3. 1985-ish.
4. I couldn't possibly tell you.
5. It won't be flying cars.
Can imagine the sky filled with flying cars?
DeleteI hope not! There are too many flying disasters now. I don't trust idiots on the road, let alone the sky.
Delete1: Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it? We do not and I cannot think of when I last used one.
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket? We have a landline on the office desk for emergency situations like power outages and such.
3: About what year did you start using computers? Mid-80s, I think.
4: What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with? The one that had the monkey inside who would chisel your work onto a piece of stone then spit it out for you. No, wait; that was my neighbors, The Flintstones.
5: What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade? More self driving cars and AI ruling the world.
I think I had a flintstones printer. Remember dot matrix?
DeleteDot Matrix? Who is she?
DeleteI kid; I remember it. My father's first computer printed that way.
1. No typewriter.
ReplyDelete2. No land line phone.
3. I've been using a computer for 30 years. Started at work, using a dial-up modem with that horrible screech. In those days the internet had absolutely nothing on it but crappy looking websites for businesses. I thought "Who will ever make use of this stupid feature?" Now it dominates my life.
4. My first encounter with a computer was in 1978, when I did a quantitative analysis of data class in university and we had to write and keypunch a huge stack of cards to run our program with. Everyone had at least 2 or 3 elastic bands around their stacks of keypunched cards, terrified of dropping them and then having to put them back in order again, LOL! The computers were huge and filled their own big room in the Engineering Building. Man, seems like ancient history now.
5. AI EVERYTHING.
My high school started on punch cards in the office in the mid 70's.
Delete1: Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it? No, I haven't had one for a long, long time.
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket? Yes, at the moment but it will be gone next week. It is part of my cable package but I never use it. I'm cutting the cable next week.
3: About what year did you start using computers? Sometime around 1990. My dad started before me and like you, he started with a Radio Shack computer.
4: What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with? I remember my dad using DOS but the first I worked with was Cobal.
5: What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade? AI is taking over but I like your idea of electric flying.
J had an early IBM PC, that loaded DOS from big floppies when we first met.
Delete1. No
ReplyDelete2. I have 3 house phones in my home.
3. I think we started with a Commodore but I'm not sure when...
4. I have no idea about computer operating systems.
5. My 8 year old grandson wants to grow up and be an engineer who designs flying cars.
My parents first computer was a Commodore 64.
Delete1. No. I last used one in 1990.
ReplyDelete2. No but mine is rather heavy to go into a pocket.
3. I think it was 1994. We did consider a Commodore 64 earlier, but vacillated for so long, the model disappeared.
4. Windows 3.1 but our first computer had the amazing Windows 95.
5. Everything will become electric, hopefully powered by renewable energy.
There should be lots of solar in Australia 🦘
Delete1: Do you own a typewriter, and if so when was the last time you used it? No I do not.
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a phone that does not fit in your pocket? No.
3: About what year did you start using computers? 1987
4: What is the earliest computer operating system you remember working with? BBC/Acorn MOS (v0.10–1.20)
5: What new technology do you think will start to be common in the next decade? Robot maids that carry you to the bathroom, shower you, clean your private parts and brush your teeth before drying you off while all the time you are reading a book or attempting a crossword. I will call mine Doris.
Do robots have a gender? If so why?
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