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<[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Colin Howard
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 3:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] an experience for what it is worth
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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