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     CP wrote --   
      
   > I loved that little thing! I had so much stuff stored on cassettes!   
      
     My first was a cassette drive as well.  Took about 15 minutes to load   
   Text Pro to write a letter.   
     Then I moved up a blazing fast disk drive, that only took a couple of   
   minutes.  Now if Word doesn't load in one second I'm thinking "Come on, whats   
   taking so long?"  :)   
      
   > touch typing to 30WPM or more, learn DOS, Win 3.1, Wordperfect 5.0,   
      
     I used to know DOS (but forgot a lot from not using it for years).   
     Never used 3.1,     
     Used WP for years until I moved over to Word.  I use Word 2007 and   
   perfectly happy with it.   
     But now, I understand, MS is no longer selling stand along Word CD's.    
   Have to lease a copy yearly for big bucks.   
      
   > We were all permanently & mostly freshly so, disabled & trying to move on to   
   new work/career paths. & their approach was wonderful: no mollycoddling &   
   treating us as weaker., but push us to our utmost, so we could go on to   
   compete evenly with able bodied jo   
      
     As it should be.   
      
   > The federal goverment closed it the year after my graduation   
      
     Naturally. Don't want a government program that actually contributes   
   anything.   
      
   > As you'll recall, the public internet was still new & controlled by  portals   
   (AOL, Compuserve, & a couple others) in the mid 1990s.    
      
     I was on GEnie (General Electric Network Information and Exchange, or the   
   like).  I was able download various groups, read/reply and upload.  At the   
   time it was "time and mileage" to use it and the phone call was long   
   distance.   
     I got my first "real" Internet connection free, at the local university.    
   I was associated with a non-profit organisation at the time. Had to fill out   
   all sorts of paperwork why I needed, what to be used for, etc then have that   
   approved, etc.   
     Now they are handed out like candy at Halloween.   
      
   > I'm filing any new storage medium I get just as fast, but now Io have actual   
   doewnload speed & bnandwidth -- I got my first 2Tb external drive & had it   
   full within 3 weeks    
      
      I keep very little on my desktop and laptop, other than programs I can   
   easily replace.  Had too many crashes in the past and lost a lot of stuff.   
      Most of my stuff is all on CD/DVD (sometimes multiple ones in case one   
   fails and can't replace that info).  A thumb is used for temporary storage.   
      
   > Oh, I miss Win98 & SE. . . it never recovered after they left it. . .  Vista   
   must have been done on purpose just to be a poison pill.   
      
     The only Windows I never used as 8 and something else.   
     I'm sticking with 10.   
      
   > Gonna stock up on 640Mb USBs   
      
     I've only brought a few, the rest are freebies.   
     Every October and April Marshall has a job fair with vendors in from all   
   sorts of companies.     
     I wander around checking out the freebies (pens, pencils, etc) one year a   
   table had 9 MB thumbs and picked up a couple.  The next year there were 58   
   MB thumbs and got a few of those.     
      
   > ahh, TV, i grew up with a 25" wide body hunk of furniture   
      
     I don't recall our first tv, it was in 1948 and a table model.  That was   
   replaced in 1951 with a RCA giant 12" round screen console.  The family had   
   that for many years.    
     My last tv was a 21 inch colour table top demo model I got for about   
   $150.   
     I don't even have a tv now.  Turned the old ones in at a recycling drive   
   years ago.  Along with lot of electronic odds and ends.     
     My tv viewing is currently old shows I get free off the net, stored on   
   DVD's to watch whenever I want.  I download the shows since things have a   
   tendency to disappear without warning on You Tube.   
     Joe   
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