1: When was the last time, if ever, you used a rotary dial phone?
2: Do you know anyone's phone number without looking it up?
3: Is your computer on WiFi or a cable?
4: Do you remember Windows 95?
5: What was the earliest operating system you worked on?
My Answers:
1: When was the last time, if ever, you used a rotary dial phone? In the early 1990's visiting my sister and my parents one summer on the farm.
2: Do you know anyone's phone number without looking it up? No. Someone asked me Sweet Bear's number, and I had to look it up.
3: Is your computer on WiFi or a cable? My desktop is plugged directly into the modem, everything else is WiFi.
4: Do you remember Windows 95? Yes, there was a YouTube the other day that encountered Windows NT, the child (in his 30's) had never hear of it before.
5: What was the earliest operating system you worked on? Basic, I develop a program for home builders to price a home, add options, and calculate five different financing options. I gave a copy to a friend, who shared with a friend, who built a nice business out of it. I used their version of it the last few years I was in Florida. I started it, someone else made something out of it (I never felt bad about the fact that someone took what I started and made a finished product out of it.)
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. Slight guess but I think it was our 1940s Bakelite phone, which we sold in about 1992 along with almost all things old.
ReplyDelete2. I know my landline number that I haven't used for years, and my late partner's number. I have the phone now and I pay a nominal amount each year to keep it active.
3. All is WiFi now. I would hate to count how many devices use the WiFi.
4. Oh yes, and is was a marvellous advance over Windows 3.1, although perhaps not as stable. I had forgotten about Windows NT, which I think was more for businesses.
5. I don't really understand this question. I never worked on an operating system.
My old office ran on Windows NT, until microserf stopped supporting security updates.
Delete1: When was the last time, if ever, you used a rotary dial phone? It must have been in the ‘90s.
ReplyDelete2: Do you know anyone's phone number without looking it up? Only my own.
3: Is your computer on WiFi or a cable? WiFi
4: Do you remember Windows 95? Yes, although I’m a Mac person.
5: What was the earliest operating system you worked on? System 3 on the Mac. No clue on anything else.
I have had the same cell number for decades. I do know it.
Delete1: When was the last time, if ever, you used a rotary dial phone? I will guess at 1985.
ReplyDelete2: Do you know anyone's phone number without looking it up? Yes, I know my own number! And that's it.
3: Is your computer on WiFi or a cable? WiFi
4: Do you remember Windows 95? Not only do I remember them - they were my favourite indie band! I saw them in concert several times. Their lead singer, Billy Gates, used to eat live hamsters on stage.
5: What was the earliest operating system you worked on? Acorn MOS in conjunction with the BBC.
Co-Founder Bill Allen has played with several bands and spent billions on music programing.
Delete1. 1980a. My dorm room.
ReplyDelete2. I used to. Now I only know my husband's cell. And the police deptartment.
3. WiFi.
4. I remember it was on the work computers in '96 (or so).
5. Windows 3.11
I built a house in Florida, for the engineer who built the first 911 system in the USA. He just drew his weekly pay at the time, no fame, no fortune.
Delete1: When was the last time, if ever, you used a rotary dial phone? I don't know when but it was soooooo last century.
ReplyDelete2: Do you know anyone's phone number without looking it up? Carlos', work ... Masa Street Food [for take-out] That's all.
3: Is your computer on WiFi or a cable? WiFi.
4: Do you remember Windows 95? I scarcely remember 1995.
5: What was the earliest operating system you worked on? I have no data space available for that information.
Perhaps you were to young to remember 1995. :)
DeleteWell, back in West Feliciana Parish, I remember when Mr. Neg Haskey came to the farm, took the crank Ma Bell telephone out of the hallway, and replaced it with a rotary-dial phone. Mama had him run a long cord, so we didn't have to stand in the hallway to use the telephone.
ReplyDeleteI would struggle with a crank powered phone. We had the first phone in the house in about 1966 or 67.
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