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Originally Posted by VeeGer
I'm 69 and disabled. I'm dependent on the internet
to keep my sanity. Also for $20 a month I got streaming
capabilities and no cap.
DAMN! For 49 I am conservative - technology-wise(don't ask about my politics though)!
I'm just one of those sticks in the mud who sees no need in 'reinventing the wheel', or adding too many steps to do something basic, such as rolling up a car window.
My Pastor is around your age, African born, full of zest for life and craves the latest update and upgrade for everything electronic. Me, I tend to treat my tech like kitchen appliances: ten, if not at least five years before upgrading things. I just don't see the point!
By the way did you read the article I attached, about those students and their devices?
Yes I did and it goes to show that mobile phones and computers are addictive. It's pretty much of a lifestyle and it showed.
I've been addicted to computers since the day my mom brought home a TI 99/4A computer. While the kid were playing cartridge games I was writing basic programs. I was hooked that I bought a Commodore 64 computer with a tape drive. Later I got a floppy disk drive.
I learned everything I could about the C64 which includes graphics and sounds. The C64 had fantastic chips in that respect. Then there's Sprite graphics and assembly language. I wrote video games and sold one to Compute! Magazine.
It goes on til IBM got popular with the public because of IBM clones. After the C64 I got into the 286 then 386, 486, 585, 686, Pentium and so on to this day. I've built my own systems and made a living working on em.
That is my world and since the internet... now this is my world.
Location: Removing a snake out of the neighbor's washing machine
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Originally Posted by VeeGer
Yes I did and it goes to show that mobile phones and computers are addictive. It's pretty much of a lifestyle and it showed.
I've been addicted to computers since the day my mom brought home a TI 99/4A computer. While the kid were playing cartridge games I was writing basic programs. I was hooked that I bought a Commodore 64 computer with a tape drive. Later I got a floppy disk drive.
I learned everything I could about the C64 which includes graphics and sounds. The C64 had fantastic chips in that respect. Then there's Sprite graphics and assembly language. I wrote video games and sold one to Compute! Magazine.
It goes on til IBM got popular with the public because of IBM clones. After the C64 I got into the 286 then 386, 486, 585, 686, Pentium and so on to this day. I've built my own systems and made a living working on em.
That is my world and since the internet... now this is my world.
Well, audio is my world, and it hasn't been the same since the intrusion of 'your world' - joke joke!
I have a Bachelor in Management Info Systems, and I've done nothing with it! My heart was in radio at the time, but my folks would not spend half the cost of a University on CT School of Broadcasting.
EUREKA!! About 20 pages ago I commented that the reason I buy DVDs is that I like to watch them on my boat where I don't get internet. Well, I got a Nighthawk hot spot which has monster download speeds and a Roku for the TV and now I'm streaming EVERYTHING. This 21st century thing is pretty cool. No more DVDs for me. Now, what do I do with the 300+ movies I already have ?
EUREKA!! About 20 pages ago I commented that the reason I buy DVDs is that I like to watch them on my boat where I don't get internet. Well, I got a Nighthawk hot spot which has monster download speeds and a Roku for the TV and now I'm streaming EVERYTHING. This 21st century thing is pretty cool. No more DVDs for me. Now, what do I do with the 300+ movies I already have ?
Donate them so GrandK can buy them in a $2 bin somewhere. And then enjoy how much lighter you feel with less stuff.
No cable, no streaming, no satellite TV. Not interested in what passes for entertainment these days, so I have a library of what I want to watch, not what the world out there tells me I should watch.
Donate them so GrandK can buy them in a $2 bin somewhere. And then enjoy how much lighter you feel with less stuff.
DVDs are easy to keep organized. I'll keep the 'stuff' and fatten my wallet by avoiding monthly cable and streaming subscriptions.
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