Hey Deri,
She gave up paid work 29 years ago, seems like she worked pretty hard on
those kids...

My first computer experience was on a TRS-80 Trash 80 learning Basic.  I
remember boyfriend has a 286 and thought it was state of the art.  The
library computers had cassette tapes but, by computer class it was the huge
old floppies.  Who ever thought we would need more than 16 K?  Ha, ha ,
ha!!!!


Beth t. the ot

(writing this at a Starbucks on the laptop with my ipod in my ear and PDA
hooked up syncing.  No free internet today though so it will be sent when I
get home.  OT nerds of the world unite!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> On Behalf Of ksalkin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:24 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Computers
> 
> I remember my *very* first home computer where my programs 
> were stored on cassette tapes.  To run a routine, I had to 
> wind the tape to the exact location using the counter (which 
> was wildly inaccurate) and run the math function  which was 
> written in BASIC.
> 
> Now THAT was fun! ;)
> 
> Kat
> 
> P.S. and the modem was 150 bps (not kps!)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> On Behalf Of Deri James
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Computers
> 
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008 22:46:08 Virginia Perry wrote:
> > Although it can't top the original, I liked this version because it 
> > made
> me
> > realize I hadn't considered how odd those terms would be to 
> a true newb.
> >
> > Oh, and I played with punch cards as a child because my dad was in 
> > computers from the early '60s until he retired.
> >
> 
> My wife, Lin, trained as a punch-card data entry clerk, 
> although she gave up
> 
> work 29 years ago, I think she may need retraining if she 
> wanted to go back to work now.
> 
> My first program was on paper tape using Dartford BASIC.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Deri

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