Saturlight
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It was 18 years ago for me, 1988, and I was on the dole.
They sent me to a re-training place to learn about fax machines and computers. In those days a computer had no Internet, pictures, images, anything, it was basically a flash word processor.
I remember in 1988, sitting in front of one of these things in bewilderment and thinking I'd never get the hang of this.
It was just a black screen with a floppy disk, and a white flashing cursor to write letters, a bit like now when you go in dos.
Crap now, but then, it was technology at its highest!
Fax machines were another invention sweeping the nation. I remember thinking, what sending a whole letter through a telephone line. How do they get the words through the wire?! WOW.
They sent me to a re-training place to learn about fax machines and computers. In those days a computer had no Internet, pictures, images, anything, it was basically a flash word processor.
I remember in 1988, sitting in front of one of these things in bewilderment and thinking I'd never get the hang of this.
It was just a black screen with a floppy disk, and a white flashing cursor to write letters, a bit like now when you go in dos.
Crap now, but then, it was technology at its highest!
Fax machines were another invention sweeping the nation. I remember thinking, what sending a whole letter through a telephone line. How do they get the words through the wire?! WOW.