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Re: an experience for what it is worth
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Colin Howard <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:54:08 +0100
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Greetings,

I ought to have said, even me, of 52 years using computers, still make silly
errors!

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:26:01 +0100, Colin Howard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

-Greetings,
-
-40 years? a mere kid! (smiles), I can give you 52 years!
-
-My first experience in 1969-70 with a real computere was an IBM1620
-mainframe, on which we used Fortran2.
-
-On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:57:54 +0000, Mike Pietruk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
-
--Samson 
--
--Things like this happen more than we might think; and, at least when I do 
--stuff like this, it is a pure accident even though I've been using 
--computers for around 40 years or so.
--Then, like you, it frustrates me to no end until, of course, when I 
--discover, totally by accident, what caused this anomaly -- and then I can 
--laugh at myself for my own stupidity, carelessness -- call it what you 
--like.
--Other times, one might create a short cut, such as this was, not realizing
--that it is modifyying something that should have never been modified -- 
--and, if changed, more thought should have been taken to see the 
--consequences.
--
--Now, if I had discovered this unintentional hotkey, rather than deleting 
--it, I would have likely changed it to hopefully something more 
--non-intrusive.
--But, then, of course, I later might discover that it interfered with 
--something else.
--
--Thanks for sharing.  
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