Subj : Old PC's
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Fri Jan 07 2022 07:34:26

  CP wrote --

> Didn't use a microwave until I was in my early 20s, was spoiled by them before  I hit 30!
  
  I got my first one when I was in my mid-30s.
  No bells or whistles.  Just a knob to set the timer and a light inside.
  Used that one for 30 years.  Had to replace with when it went screwy and
started spitting out sparks and all.
  The new one (about 10 years old), has all sorts of doo-dads and all which
I seldom use.  Mostly its defrost/warm/cook.  I don't even use the clock.
  The last few years its started acting up a bit and have to give it extra
time once in a while to do whatever.
 
> I had no commercial software on my Vic=20 - all games were painstakingly typed out

  I tried that once or twice but somewhere along the way I would make a
typo and have to start all over again.
  The only games I play are solitaire and checkers.
 
> Which Windows was your intro?

  I went from DOS to Win95.
  A friend had 3.1 but never used it.  I thought Windows was a fad.
  We had a member here, Nancy Backus, she should rest in peace, who was a
confirmed DOS user up to the end.  I jokingly called her a Luddite. 

> Was that the one you began with? I

  I went from TextPro with my Commie, to WP when I started using 95.  But
it wasn't all that compatible with Word that was becoming the standard so
switched.  
  I still have my WP software as well as the Word program on a disk which I
use to install on replacement PC's and laptops.

> I use OpenOffice

  I have used that in the past at some point.

> My first foray into internet email & newsgroups was via a local BBS

  Same here.
  But to get a dial up number for what was my first one was like getting
secret government docs.  Had to know someone, be referred, go though a
"background check".  All but give them my first born.  Being a bachelor I had no
first born {that I know off ==wink
   Once I made it past the first barrier I was on the others in town.
   One site was a hobby of this guy, who when the board went off line
opened a computer repair business and was my repair guy for years.  He closed
that and an employee of his started his own business who is now my repair guy.
   Most of the problems I can figure out the problem on my own, but there
are times I need some professional help.  (Quiet Daryl).

> I always go for saving more than I need & using redundancy. 

  In parking nothing is saved off line which really frustrates me. If
sometime happens all that is lost or highly corrupted.
  But then I am dealing with state "thinking" in that regard.
 
> Wjhich 10? (how many updats has it done to you?)

  21H2 that came out in November.
 
> I was happily using win8.1

  I heard too many bad things about it being buggy, so waited for 10.
  I don't plan to go to 11, from what I have read, waiting for the more
stable one after that one.  But I am perfectly happy with 10 and no plans to
change unless I have to.
 
> > My tv viewing is currently old shows I get free off the net, stored on DVD's to watch whenever I want. 

> Makes sense -- why not watch only what you like, eh, without ads & on the schjedule you prefer. . .

   Yep.

> as data files instead of viodeo files

  Same here.

> If the internet dies, but we have electricity, I'll still have tv & movies to occupy me & my fam.

  Wise man, you think like I do.  :)
  Joe
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