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Laga - Oct 05, 2007 10:19:34 am PDT #2943 of 25497
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I don't remember anyone at college with a laptop.


DXMachina - Oct 05, 2007 10:46:25 am PDT #2944 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I went to college with a slide rule.

Me, too. At least the first couple of years. My freshman chem lab instructor had the first calculator I ever saw, a brand new Sharp four function job that he'd paid $295 for. By my junior year I was borrowing my little brother's four function plus sqrt. They were down to about $100 by then.

Still have several slide rules hanging around the house.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 05, 2007 10:46:50 am PDT #2945 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I was on the border. A few students had computers. There were Mac labs for the rest of this, with the little tiny macs in them. IBM machines did not have windows, so were only for computer type people. I used a typewriter because I lived at home and it was easier than driving in to use the computer. It had a word processing feature, but I rarely used it. I did become adept at changing typos/revising with white out, and then Xeroxing the paper so that it looked clean (because we were allowed three errors per page without point taken off) This was in 1991-1995. In 1995 students started getting email, but I thought it was weird and didn't like it. Also it was absurdly easy to hack in to as your password was your name. Some of my friends send fake love emails from our department head to students and caused a brou-ha-ha.


beekaytee - Oct 05, 2007 1:04:23 pm PDT #2946 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

I didn't use a laptop until my last master's program...1999-2001.

I was the only person in the program who used one. Once it became known that I took awesome notes with it, I became hugely popular.

There was, of course, the occasional dominoes game...


beekaytee - Oct 05, 2007 1:06:45 pm PDT #2947 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

Coding question:

I finally got most of the pages framed for the new site. Text is coming.

Just now, I added the constant contact sign up form to most of the pages. On the homepage, I'd like to move the box to the right of the screen, between the leaves and flame.

Each time I've tried to do that, I've somehow managed to splinch the flame.

Is it possible to move the box over there, and if so, what do I need to add to the code?

Humble thanks, as always.


Gris - Oct 05, 2007 1:06:57 pm PDT #2948 of 25497
Hey. New board.

I had three computers. Four, for a while. Of course, me = CS dork.

I was definitely seeing the shift towards Mac laptops when I graduated, but they were rare when I first got there - OS X was still pretty new. I bought my first Mac (white iBook G3) sophomore year, my second one (PowerMac G5) my junior year, and have never gone back.


Typo Boy - Oct 05, 2007 1:10:04 pm PDT #2949 of 25497
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

No computer, though a few people had portable laptops. I did have a portable manual typewriter.


beekaytee - Oct 05, 2007 1:10:25 pm PDT #2950 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

Oh no! What did I do?

I rechecked the link code and it was right, but since then I tried to delete the message twice and it's still there.

Oh jeez.


P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2007 1:12:31 pm PDT #2951 of 25497
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Fixed, Bonny.


beekaytee - Oct 05, 2007 1:13:06 pm PDT #2952 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant

Bless you!