Lap Tops

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Have 2 now
I have one from work, which came in real handy when I was working from home while on chemo treatments. Just got a personal one for the house (got tired of my wife borrowing my work comp.) My wife and I used to have card nights with the in-laws. But they move to Seattle a few months back. We still have card nights though. We each get on a laptop in different areas of our houses and play online.

-DJ

Kerry S

With the all this talk about computers I got to tell you a funny
With the all this talk about computers I got to tell you a funny one.

Back in the 80s we would take our boat to our favorite lake for vacation. The only problem was the resort was very popular so we had to make our reservations a year in advance.

When my wife had her monthly cycle, she had a special broom that came out of the closet and the idea of boating and swimming was out of the question. She also did not have the most dependable body clock. Now I had Lotus 123 on my home computer. I got a great idea of tracking this unpredictable cycle with a Lotus spreadsheet. You know, you can’t manage if you don’t measure.

Well, I can tell you that I got to the point that I could always project a year in advance what week was vacation week after that. I never missed!!!

I would print out graphs for her and she would take them to her Gynecologist. He loved them. Damn you should have seen that graph go nuts when she hit the change.

RickMurtagh

Kerry S said:

Right on Phil
Right on Phil. I have been involved with computers from 67. Worked in both sales and service. Started with a Compact luggable X type at home in 87. I will never forget how happy I was, when I installed a 10 meg hard drive in it.

Lap tops are 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound box. It is the heat build up that kills them. My old brain is also set in concrete to standard size keyboards.

I am pretty partial to my
I am pretty partial to my 27" display on my Mac and the 3 24" displays on my PC. But he iPad is fun and very convenient.

RickMurtagh

geotina said:

Google
I can just see Rick now hitting the Google button "lap dance".

Tina

Damn router
Damn router is blocking all my searches.

RickMurtagh

pf78248 said:

My best friend, too!
Rick,

Maybe you should get one for her! Then you won't feel guilty! Mine is wifi so I have to be home or somewhere with it. But it works great at all the drs and hospital. And home! Do you have a favorite AP?

Enjoy!


Hugs and Healing,
Priscilla

Sent from my iPad

I use mine all day
I use mine all day long. I have the 3G model. I had hoped to do some programming for it, but my chemotherapy brain is not helping much with that task.
Favorite app? Probably a genre - news apps and then there is plants vs zombies, but that is kind of old and easily beatable. I use mine mostly to consume news and keep in touch with friends and the world (email, Facebook, forums, Picassa, etc.).

msccolon

Kerry S said:

With the all this talk about computers I got to tell you a funny
With the all this talk about computers I got to tell you a funny one.

Back in the 80s we would take our boat to our favorite lake for vacation. The only problem was the resort was very popular so we had to make our reservations a year in advance.

When my wife had her monthly cycle, she had a special broom that came out of the closet and the idea of boating and swimming was out of the question. She also did not have the most dependable body clock. Now I had Lotus 123 on my home computer. I got a great idea of tracking this unpredictable cycle with a Lotus spreadsheet. You know, you can’t manage if you don’t measure.

Well, I can tell you that I got to the point that I could always project a year in advance what week was vacation week after that. I never missed!!!

I would print out graphs for her and she would take them to her Gynecologist. He loved them. Damn you should have seen that graph go nuts when she hit the change.

OMG!!! Lotus 123
You ARE old, and I guess I am as well as I can remember programming spreadsheets in that as well!
mary

TxKayaker

msccolon said:

OMG!!! Lotus 123
You ARE old, and I guess I am as well as I can remember programming spreadsheets in that as well!
mary

I can barely remember going
I can barely remember going to application development school for Lotus Notes as well as Quattro Pro. Lot's water has pasted under that bridge.

Kerry S

msccolon said:

OMG!!! Lotus 123
You ARE old, and I guess I am as well as I can remember programming spreadsheets in that as well!
mary

Still use it
I still use Lotus 123. I track everything from electric use to logs in the woodstove. Its really great to track medical expense for the tax man. I also have excel and hate it.

TxKayaker

Kerry S said:

Still use it
I still use Lotus 123. I track everything from electric use to logs in the woodstove. Its really great to track medical expense for the tax man. I also have excel and hate it.

I had 123 but went to
I had 123 but went to Quattro Pro & then on to Excel I have no problems with any of them I might still have 123 on 8" floppies somewhere maybe in the attic. Could be melted by now in the Dallas heat.

msccolon

TxKayaker said:

I had 123 but went to
I had 123 but went to Quattro Pro & then on to Excel I have no problems with any of them I might still have 123 on 8" floppies somewhere maybe in the attic. Could be melted by now in the Dallas heat.

another laugh! 8" floppies!
If it's not melted, good luck finding a working drive that'll read it
mary

PhillieG

TxKayaker said:

I had 123 but went to
I had 123 but went to Quattro Pro & then on to Excel I have no problems with any of them I might still have 123 on 8" floppies somewhere maybe in the attic. Could be melted by now in the Dallas heat.

Before my time
Never heard of 8" floppies, only the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 ones.
I would think if it was 8", it wouldn't be "floppy"
;-0

TxKayaker

PhillieG said:

Before my time
Never heard of 8" floppies, only the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 ones.
I would think if it was 8", it wouldn't be "floppy"
;-0

Origins, the 8-inch disk
See
Origins, the 8-inch disk
See also: Table of 8-inch floppy formats

Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive PatentsIn 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a simple and inexpensive system for loading microcode into their System/370 mainframes in a process called Initial Control Program Load (ICPL). The 370 was the first IBM computer to use read/write semiconductor memory for microcode, and whenever the power was turned off the microcode had to be reloaded (System/370's predecessor, System/360, used non-volatile read-only memory for microcode). Normally this task would be done with tape drives which almost all 370 systems included, but tapes were large and slow. IBM wanted something faster and lighter that could also be sent out to customers with software updates for $5.

Us old timers remember these!!!

PhillieG

TxKayaker said:

Origins, the 8-inch disk
See
Origins, the 8-inch disk
See also: Table of 8-inch floppy formats

Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive PatentsIn 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a simple and inexpensive system for loading microcode into their System/370 mainframes in a process called Initial Control Program Load (ICPL). The 370 was the first IBM computer to use read/write semiconductor memory for microcode, and whenever the power was turned off the microcode had to be reloaded (System/370's predecessor, System/360, used non-volatile read-only memory for microcode). Normally this task would be done with tape drives which almost all 370 systems included, but tapes were large and slow. IBM wanted something faster and lighter that could also be sent out to customers with software updates for $5.

Us old timers remember these!!!

Not as Old!
I started out with the 8088's and the 5 1/4 ones.
Who has and old steam powered computer? Any of you guys?
;-)

Kerry S

TxKayaker said:

Origins, the 8-inch disk
See
Origins, the 8-inch disk
See also: Table of 8-inch floppy formats

Drawings from IBM Floppy Disk Drive PatentsIn 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a simple and inexpensive system for loading microcode into their System/370 mainframes in a process called Initial Control Program Load (ICPL). The 370 was the first IBM computer to use read/write semiconductor memory for microcode, and whenever the power was turned off the microcode had to be reloaded (System/370's predecessor, System/360, used non-volatile read-only memory for microcode). Normally this task would be done with tape drives which almost all 370 systems included, but tapes were large and slow. IBM wanted something faster and lighter that could also be sent out to customers with software updates for $5.

Us old timers remember these!!!

Wow, does that bring back memory
Wow, does that bring back memory. You are right on the floppy drive.

I started in computers in 67 at a service bureau selling time sharing on an SDS 940. You would program in basic. We also had a 360/30 with 64K and 4 2311s. We thought we were big stuff when we go a 360/65 with a 9 mod 2314 drive.