The first couple computers I used had the OS built in (in EPROM or something). The first time I used a PC, I was thinking, "What is this DOS thing and why do I need it?" (That was for a work-study programming job. I programmed in qbasic.)

Now I feel kinda bad.

Pshaw. Just don't have lilies in your apartment when you invite me over, and we're good.

Captiva InputAccel is one of the top two enterprise capture applications now on the market. It costs a fair chunk of change, and does a boatload of nifty things. Handle long filenames and support rightclicking over thumbnails aren't so much in that boat.

Well, what she was saying is that when she was in high school (which was around 10 years ago), her family was definitely behind the times, tech-wise, so classmates were writing papers in MS Word, but she was using something called Eight in One.

And really, I had no idea that there was still stuff in wide use that didn't support the crazy ass names I give all my files now.

This is the first computer I ever owned: [link] A Radio Shack PC-1 (Pocket Computer-1). I also had the printer/cassette interface attachment thingie. That was fun. It had a single line display (LCD) and a whopping 1.5k RAM.

I had no idea that there was still stuff in wide use that didn't support the crazy ass names I give all my files now.

One of the common errors I run into with the program I support is that the filenames are just too long--or they contain funky characters.

So the angry cardinal has a new trick: he grasps the bottom sill and glares into the window. It's cute. But the funny part is that apparently his little bird legs aren't quite as strong when he's clinging to a vertical surface. Because he slooooowly sinks backwards and down (with his feet still in the same place) until he has to flap back up to see the evil cardinal.

I've never had a PC or used one regularly. I don't think. What were those IIc things in the early 80s, anyway? Huh. I grew up with macs, then dealt in vax/vms and unix systems largely. Work is still largely unix, though I think my desktop will be transitioned to a mac and it looks like our main servers are moving unix to linux.

What were those IIc things in the early 80s, anyway?

Those were Apples. Pre Mac, pre GUI.

What were those IIc things in the early 80s, anyway?

t remembers his family's IIc fondly

I remember taking a computer class for a quarter and asking my mom if *we* could get a mouse. Because PCs didn't have mouses back in the day.

Finally read the Nerve article and, having lived and dated in both DC and NY, can attest to the fact that that article is bullsh*t on so many levels. I get the feeling that while she may have run in the intellectual or artistic power circles in NY, she did not run in the financial power circles, where she would have found a lot of the same behaviors she thinks one finds "only" in DC.

However, I will say that when I went to Georgetown people did seem to have this weird thing about SAT scores--Of course, at the time I was there, not only was it transitioning reputation-wise so there was a pretty big gap between Senior and Freshman scores, there were also with five separate schools with very different SAT thresholds for admission.