"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished" - Benjamin Franklin

Olley46 · Guru

What were we all doing before computer,s

Grams · Guru

Books, board games and a deck of cards....or the good old jigsaw puzzles were my favourites....now I have them all on my computer lol

vk6tnc · Guru

I had to earn a living fixing phones, TVs and videos instead !!!

Just as well computers came along, because it's no longer economical to fix other consumer electronics, just throw it away and buy another piece of cheap chinese crap....

-- Edited by vk6tnc on Sunday 17th of March 2013 10:27:28 PM

ozjohn · Guru

Living a more active life I guess.

justcruisin01 · Guru

ozjohn wrote:
Living a more active life I guess.

Very true & watching a lot less tv crap.

GaryKelly · Guru

I started using an Apple 2e computer in 1984, bought my own Amstrad in 1986, and started using the internet in 1991. There's a plethora of ISPs available now but back then there was only one - Compuserve Pacific. My first monthly bill was $5000. I questioned it and the company sent me a printout of all my on line connections. It was bigger than both Sydney telephone directories. My next month's bill was $2500. Even my IBM compatible 286 computer from Dick Smith Electronics (when he still owned the store at St Leonards) with a 10MB (yes, 10MB) hard drive cost $3000. My Canon Bubblejet printer cost $1100. It took a few years before computers and internet connection became affordable. At first it was outrageous in the extreme. Now I pay $30 a month for 5GB wireless connection. I have 2 laptops, a Toshiba that cost a grand and a smaller Acer that cost about $400.

In the mid '90s, I had a 486 (the last of the 86s before the first Pentium). I remember the techie installing Windows using 1.4MB floppies, about 150 disks. Took him all day. A lot has changed since then. But I couldn't live without my internet.

Happywanderer · The Master

I would have spent more time out in the garden which I am unable to do so much now. Would love to be out there but my aches and pains don't allow it.
I never had a computer at all until after I moved to Aus in 1997. My daughter had a Commodore 64 for playing games on, but other than that I knew nothing about computers at all.
I went to classes to learn so I could get a job in an office and went from there.

brickies · Guru

Maybe not has well informed

EllenajoeL · Senior Member

Olley46 wrote:
How did we spend our time before we had a computer, Lance C
-- Edited by Olley46 on Sunday 17th of March 2013 03:07:48 PM

Personally, pre-laptop, I know I spent more time in human-to-human, speech-driven conversation and less time in front of 'a screen'....

(I often wonder what the objective difference is; as an outsider; between how a tv affects personal human interaction and a computer...excepting that a computer is a more modern 'excuse' for not talking/bonding with those in your presence).

GaryKelly · Guru

I disagree, Olley. Computers, for me at least, are interactive. I know a helluva lot more peeps now than I ever did watching television. And they don't raid my fridge or complain if I haven't shaved.

Cloak · Guru

I used to have a PDP11 then migrated to a TRS 80. Now I have a Mac. The PDP11 was a chick magnet. lol

vixen · Veteran Member

OzJohn

Literally "laughing out loud!!!"
I came into this world with nothing and I still have most of it!!!
OMG! Funny! True!

-- Edited by vixen on Saturday 30th of March 2013 09:55:33 AM

"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished" - Benjamin Franklin

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