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scionofgrace

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Feb 18, 2009 20:38

I just realized today how completely out-of-date it is that most computer applications use an icon of a 3.5" floppy for the "save" button. And I can remember using 5" floppies with our Commodore 64. Actual floppies ( Read more... )

computer woe, music, britishness

Comments 7

tree_and_leaf February 19 2009, 08:11:53 UTC

I feel my icon is remarkably appropriate ;)

I wouldn't worry too much about Noll. I know people who still revere him (and every year, someone posts an anniversary notice in the Gaurdian with the line 'Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered.'

rabblebabblelog February 19 2009, 10:03:22 UTC

Ya know....since you can remember when floppy disks were truly floppy, you officially qualify as an "old fart". Welcome. :-)

scionofgrace February 21 2009, 20:08:55 UTC

Not as old as some people I know. My dad learned to program computers with punch cards.

rabblebabblelog February 22 2009, 02:34:02 UTC

OMG. The computer class I took in college had punch cards. The darned computer took up a whole room, and there was a stack of cards 3 inches thick just to make a behemoth printer spew out the date, my name, and the name of the class. Now I do email, check the news, and update my blog using my smartphone. That's why I feel free to throw around the term "old fart" so freely. :-D

carida_46 February 20 2009, 21:59:00 UTC

The trouble *I* had to get a decent cuppa in the US!!!
I had to convince them to use 'boiling' water for a start.

scionofgrace February 21 2009, 20:07:18 UTC

Which is why for many years I thought I didn't like tea. And then I went to Australia.

Even their Lipton was better.

wudu_wasa February 20 2009, 22:18:39 UTC

That's because no one seeps anymore.