I recall the big switch to using a mouse. Wow! And, of course, the Blue Screen of Death.
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Dan Richwine
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I was a teenager when the mouse came out. I remember thinking how it was sure to fail - how in their right minds would lift their hands from the keyboard, slowing themselves down, just to use a mouse for things that anyone could do if they learned the keyboard shortcuts?
This is why I became an accountant and not a businessman...
Well - maybe stretching the definition a bit, my first computer was a massive word processor that the publisher I worked for used to generate invoices and reports. I adapted it to do my production schedules which moved the editorial staff from the handwritten version we used to do. The processor was a fairly massive affair about the side of a Volkswagen I'd say with the keyboard and amber display at a separate station.
My first desktop was an Apple IIe with an upgraded 128k hard drive. Also had a dual disk drive that took the paperboard covered 5-1/4 floppies. The monitor display was amber characters only. And the printer was a daisy wheel impact printer from Okidata that took fan folded sheets of pin-feed paper.
128k. That's about the size of an office email these days...
A Mouse? What was that? Here's my first work computer, the Compaq portable...weighing in at a back-breaking 28 lbs. This was the age of floppy drives, miniscule screens, and eternal waits for downloads. Oh, yeah. Lotus was the king of spreadsheets back then. Lotus? O.K., kiddies, gather 'round and I'll tell you osme stories.....
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I was a teenager when the mouse came out. I remember thinking how it was sure to fail - how in their right minds would lift their hands from the keyboard, slowing themselves down, just to use a mouse for things that anyone could do if they learned the keyboard shortcuts?
This is why I became an accountant and not a businessman...
Well - maybe stretching the definition a bit, my first computer was a massive word processor that the publisher I worked for used to generate invoices and reports. I adapted it to do my production schedules which moved the editorial staff from the handwritten version we used to do. The processor was a fairly massive affair about the side of a Volkswagen I'd say with the keyboard and amber display at a separate station.
My first desktop was an Apple IIe with an upgraded 128k hard drive. Also had a dual disk drive that took the paperboard covered 5-1/4 floppies. The monitor display was amber characters only. And the printer was a daisy wheel impact printer from Okidata that took fan folded sheets of pin-feed paper.
128k. That's about the size of an office email these days...
- Jeff
A Mouse?
What was that?
Here's my first work computer, the Compaq portable...weighing in at a back-breaking 28 lbs. This was the age of floppy drives, miniscule screens, and eternal waits for downloads.
Oh, yeah. Lotus was the king of spreadsheets back then.
Lotus? O.K., kiddies, gather 'round and I'll tell you osme stories.....
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