Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group How long have you been using computers?

Well this isn't so much about the computers but more about maybe what contributed...

Im not sure but I did in home day care for 15 years and spent alot of days holding, bending over and picking up babies and toddlers, at times some of them being 20lbs or more.

Lisa

Hey cemc, I have an antique Underwood sitting on my shelf right now. It still works great.

Back, wrists, neck, eye strain, so much trouble from staring at the byproducts of 1s and 0s...go figure?

How does that saying go?

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't".

Chris

Hiya Chris,

I think Radio Shack sold 4 versions of the trs80, but I'm not sure. The one given to me is the first picture shown in the Google results below, which was also my first computer. I thought I remember it being yellow though.
TRS80's on Google
Take care,
James

I was right there with ya Steve. The old dial-a-mainframe system. God, how I hated those monsters, and the languages that you had to learn to run one. Some with the huge floppy discs, some had cassettes. And your desktop device really did take up the whole top of the desk..I remember at our dealership we had one office dedicated to just that huge unit. We were in Southeastern Ohio and our mainframe that we called in to was in Dayton at NCR. They handled the system for Reynolds and Reynolds that came up with the forms we would input for parts ordering and GM Warranty claims. The gal from R&R that would bring us our updates, (no online updates back then) used to slip me the latest games..Space Invaders on a 6" screen using X's and O's to represent the ships and such, the latest language programs to draw pictures using BASIC or one of the other inputs to create a Playboy bunny logo using X's and O's...

I've been riding the PCs since the Commodore and the Timex..

who remembers this game?

ZORK

in the late 80s, remember our collaborators running our data through CRAY supercomputers to generate structures, stuff that can be done now on a PC.

in the early 90s, remember setting up data mining searches that would run overnight, and hoping they wouldn't crash so you wouldn't have to do it again in the morning and tie up the lab computer for hours so no one else could use it....now those same searches that search through infinitely more data take seconds.....any longer and we get impatient.....and really saw all that change within just a few years between the early 90s and late 90s.

its been exciting to see so much progress in such a short time.

what a fun thread!
I had a Radio Shack trs80 and still have the 'vintage' Sharp calculator on that site w/the trs80s.
And yes, I remember Zork

I agree that this is a fun thread! We had the TRS-80 with the tape drive and later my husband got the trs-80 color that we hooked up to the TV. I wasn't really into video or arcade games, but we got a NES when my oldest was little and I am quite familiar with that, SNES, Gamecube, PS, PS2 and some Pc games because of my kids.

I wonder, too, about all the bending and lifting and standing, etc. involved with childcare. I wore my babies a lot and most of them were big babies.

Is there anything we can do that wouldn't be harmful over time?

Yes - I played it with my kids for months! Then Zork II