On 11/2/2017 8:32 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
Just took it, but the questions are obviously geared towards someone who's
not me. I've been actively involved online since roughly 1993, and I'm in
IT. So the questions like, "Does your family think it's a good idea for you
to go online" make me chuckle. I would say it depends - my wife thinks I'm
online too much as it is.
Those were the hardest questions, the ones that assumed some sort of resistance to being on-line. I also had trouble
with the ones about hours. I'm on the computer a lot, both working with photos and other off-line things, but it's all
integrated. I don't have any line between local and net.
In my first career job, we calculated the numbers on financial projections using huge, noisy, slow mechanical
calculators. Around 1970-71, I used 300 BAUD dial-up and a Selectric based terminal to access a BASIC computer and
automated that work. The connection and printing were so slow that my programs used single letter variables; kinda hard
to read. After some of faster terminals, we got access to IBM CMS timesharing on our mainframes via 7270 terminals,
printers, etc.
I also got an early IBM PCXT, with huge HD that wouldn't hold a single raw file today. Then a PC3270 bridge computer, in
which Chuck had a big part in development. One could switch back and forth, and transfer data between the two worlds.
But I don't have any idea when in there I first started using the internet. We were already so heavily into networked
computer use that I guess it didn't register as a big deal?
Incomplete Memories Moose
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