This should come as no surprise

Dumb Bob wants to see a similar poll, this time of judges.

 

Not surprising at all. That's not all they don't understand and most don't want to understand. They are simply too brainwashed into believing that there is nothing they can do but go see some lawyer or run to a debt settlement company hoping against hope that their problems can be resolved in those kinds of ways.

 

I am always amazed how lazy people are.. Luckily most of us here found the internet and search engines and have put the WWW to good use : ) I can see BEFORE the internet running scared and or getting a lawyer, but not now with all the information we have. Same thing with computers. I remember when I would have to go to the Mac store for everything and or pay for the online help (way back in 95) but now all you need is to do asearch and you can fix most anything. : ) Woofer

 

You mean to tell me that you had to go to the Mac store to use a computer? I don't quite understand that. That is only 14 years ago and personal computers have been widely available since long before that. Personal computers have been available for about 40 years now from what I hear. On the other hand I realize I may be misunderstanding what you said above. Is that true?

 

I had to go to the Mac store to have my Mac fixed and there were not many around back then, and in fact I did not know ANYONE that used a Mac then but me. I don't think that many people had computers and especially Macs back in 95. Who do you know that had a personal computer in 1969,let alone the 90's? I don't remember anyone and Daddy was an MIT genius and we bought International Business Machine stocks starting in 1953. I remember going to see a computer back then in 64 and it was bigger than a room. So we should take a poll and see when we all got our first computer or Mac ; ) Woofer

 

You are at least partially correct in that personal computers were not available in 1969. I don't know when the first personal computers were available or who made them but I do know that Texas Instruments had small personal computers starting about 1980 and they were widely available and not all that expensive. Commodore came out before the Texas Instruments TI-994a came out. Maybe about 1978 or 1979. The Kaypro came out some time around then too. Maybe the early 1980 era. Radio Shack had some early computers and so did IBM. Radio Shack had what was widely known as the Trash 80 and IBM had the early z80 computers. Most had hard drives that ranged in size from 5 megabytes to as much as 20 megabytes. Twenty megabyte hard drives were a bit expensive and cost about $225 to as much as $250.00. IBM introduced the DOS based operating systems and Microsoft introduced the Windows 3.0 operating system pretty early. Don't know when but I believe it was prior to 1995. Windows 98 came out next so Windows 3.0 had to have been introduced around 1995 or thereabouts. Of course, today even 20 gigabyte hard drives are so small they can't be found on the market anymore. I don't buy anything smaller than a terrabyte now unless it is for a laptop. I have 11 one terrabyte hard drives, most of them are external USB SATA drives. Those can be bought most places including Wal-Mart for just over $100 and even 2 terrabyte drives are available for around $250.00. Now we are starting to hear about gigabyte drives that are all solid state and have no moving parts. Back in the days you are talking about computers only had small memory chips too. Now we think we have to have at least 3 gigs of memory. Quite interesting to discuss the old computer systems, isn't it?

 

It appears you are much more techie than myself and your world has very smart people that had computers at home in the 70's and 80's and early 90's. My world did not, even though relatives worked at IBM(BTW, that company started in the late 19Th century ; ) and also was on the ground floor of a computer company in Germany. So you never said when you got your first home computer that you accessed the WWW ? Is this what business you are in? Woofer

 

How soon we forget magnavox with their home game system for television before radio shack,IBM,etc.Or electronic pinball games who had a computer board in it,before all of them.This is jj dh,igot in on the ground floor for touchscreen games and jukeboxes,helped to design some of the machines you see in airport's etc,they had many flaws at first people spilling stuff on them scratching the screen.so some form of a computer go back many years.

 

Well we couldn't even use slide rulers when I went to school ; ) Woofer

 

Well i got a slide rule sitting in my desk drawer,OH GOD I'M OLD,I NEVER KNEW WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS TELL ME.LOL

 

I remember when I was hitch hiking back to college and I met someone that was THIRTY!!! I thought she was OLD. I did get the Ma'am last summer when I was getting gas! ACK!!!! Woofer

 

Never trust anyone under fifty.lol

 

I have one on my desk, too. And I know how to use it.

 

Before Windows 98 was Windows 95, and before that was Windows 3.0 and 3.1. I bought a 486 in 1992, and I bought Windows 3.1 at the same time, so Windows was out at least in 1992.

 

I remember using the old machine, with the blurry pic and paying AOL hahahhaha for the time on line. It is amazing how fast we come, but in my house I still have my Mom's heavy dial black desk phone, and the *hi-fi*. Woofer

 

Well i can remember in the early 50's not every one had a refrigerator but an icebox and i was always chasing the ice truck,or the beer truck with open sides and no locks

 

We cooked (and mostly heated the house) with a wood-burning cookstove when I was growing up.

 

I was just talking about the ice truck the other day with someone the same age as me. They grew up in the country and I grew up in the city,and we had our ice delivered by horse and wagon.They didn't.This was the late 50's early 60's. Woofer

 

Well we do that now ; ) Woofer