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Post by librarylady on Apr 16, 2016 18:48:18 GMT
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 16, 2016 19:17:07 GMT
No computers back when I was born either. I was a kid in the Dark Ages... you know, when we had only three TV channels and used manual typewriters.  |
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Post by mirabelleswalker on Apr 16, 2016 19:48:49 GMT
My first Apple computer cost at least 4 times as much as the Lenovo laptop I bought last week, and that's without adjusting for inflation. It was also a replacement for a 5-year-old Toshiba that cost 3 times the price, also not accounting for inflation.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 16, 2016 21:00:01 GMT
I'm a dinosaur too. We didn't get our first computer until I was in high school (Apple IIc, LOL).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 21:18:29 GMT
This is what computers looked like the year I was born: IBM 1401 Computer (1959)  |
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Post by femalebusiness on Apr 16, 2016 21:19:44 GMT
Not only was I born way before computers were invented, I was born before remote controls for TVs. The first remote that we got wasn't really remote it was attached to the TV by a long wire that strung across the living room to the couch.
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Post by YooHoot on Apr 16, 2016 21:21:23 GMT
I don't want to look. It will say computers weren't invented or something that will make my day shit. My kids already laugh that I didn't have the Internet growing up.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Apr 16, 2016 21:31:37 GMT
Haha, we were only 3 years past WWII, pretty sure there weren't any computers to be had. We bought a used DOS computer in 1986 for $1,300. Expensive for today's costs.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Apr 16, 2016 21:40:17 GMT
Not only was I born way before computers were invented, I was born before remote controls for TVs. The first remote that we got wasn't really remote it was attached to the TV by a long wire that strung accross the living room to the couch. I was born way before color TV's were invented. Had old black and white TVs with rabbit ears and a much smaller picture than computer monitors. |
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Post by FurryP on Apr 16, 2016 23:49:27 GMT
I don't want to look. It will say computers weren't invented or something that will make my day shit. My kids already laugh that I didn't have the Internet growing up. Let them know that their kids will one day laugh at them for growing up with something that is not out for consumer use right now. (or invented yet)  |
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Post by Sue on Apr 17, 2016 0:53:51 GMT
I was born pre-television and as a kid we listened to radio programs for entertainment. (Only the Shadow know!) My grandparents still had a crank telephone that was an oak box that hung on the wall. And it was a party line, of course. There were no hand held calculators nor electric typewriters. As I recall we got our first little black and white TV when I was about 11 or 12 and the whole world opened up. A cousin worked for a large paper company near that time and that was the first time I heard the word "computer." It took up a huge room. This was around 1960 or so. My husband and I bought our first computer in the mid-eighties and haven't looked back.
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Post by anniefb on Apr 17, 2016 2:24:24 GMT
No computers back when I was born either. I was a kid in the Dark Ages... you know, when we had only three TV channels and used manual typewriters.  Way back last century |
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Post by ntsf on Apr 17, 2016 4:51:26 GMT
my dh got a computer science degree way before personnel computers were invented. remember the card decks? he used to have to explain what it was..because no one had heard of computers. we were on the internet before the www.... my tv was a black and white "portable"..for years, we changed channels with a pliers..since the knob broke. circa 1955.. there were analog computers in ww2..there is one on the submarine that is docked at fisherman's wharf...used for aiming
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Post by nlwilkins on Apr 17, 2016 5:52:07 GMT
They were not around, not even the card punch ones when I was born. We still had party lines for our phones and television was not even on all day. Mother had to read books to us which is how I learned to read by the age of four. We thought we were living modern cause mother had a blender! You still mixed your cakes with an egg beater or by hand, though there might have been mixers around but of course they were too expensive and considered a luxury.
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Post by quinlove on Apr 17, 2016 6:32:05 GMT
There were certainly no computers when I was growing up. We very rarely watched our black and white TV. But, we were fine with that. Because we went outside to play !!!
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 17, 2016 9:39:17 GMT
As long as we're reminiscing here I'll just mention that I was in college -- COLLEGE! -- before I knew that Oz was in color and Kansas was black and white. We'd always had only a black and white TV so those annual "Wizard of Oz" viewings were always in black and white. But one year in college they showed the movie in the student union. Imagine my surprise when Dorothy opened the door of her house and there was all that color! lol And in that same college I also took that computer course where we carried about those long boxes of punch cards.  Yeah I'm old. I still remember when dd asked me how old I was when I got my first cell phone (because she was agitating for one and I said she was too young). She did not believe me when I answered "42".  |
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Post by anxiousmom on Apr 17, 2016 13:24:18 GMT
I am pretty sure there were computers when I was born-but they were probably the size of a battleship and used punch cards. I do remember in college when my ex-husband would 'check out' a portable computer. It was about the size of a suitcase and as far as I could tell was limited to word processing and work was saved on a floppy disk. In the back of my mind I always kind of thought a typewriter would have worked just about as well. |
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