I have an 8″ floppy Wang

Last year I got rid of my 8″ disks for the Xerox 860.

Chris if I had a coupla thou to spare I’d fly you out here to teach our church about how you leverage web technology in your ministry. We could learn a thing or two.

A charming dissenting opinion is offered by this Vesta ad that I first saw on a link from Stand Firm.

I do keep an emergency backup transcription device suitably activated. A deletion protocol is available.

When “Power Point” first arrived, I referred to it as bullets with babble. I still see it that way.

Steve L. Thanks for the clarification. Your link to your Wang changed my unfortunate initial opinion of your comment.

This might be a nice complement to Chris’ chatroom pieces: what sorts of tweets would TEC send out to all their followers? What sorts of things would they post on their Wall?

If I could find the Wall on Facebook maybe I could post there.

Seriously, what to tweet about? If you have no message, don’t bother with any medium.

Love the tactile feel of the IBM Selectric typewriter.

I first started fooling with the Internet in the early 90′s. A 1200 or 2400 baud PC was more than enough to haul all over the Web. 9600 was blazing to me back then and 11,000 was off the charts. That’s because there was nothing but words, no pictures at all. I was the king of Gopher sites back in the day.

Ah yes — back in the day of the BBS. Mustang was the preferred software in this area.

Sounds like a waste of a few grand if you ask me. I wonder how many followers Katie Rags has on twitter?

IBM Selectric. Pffft.

You can’t been the chicklet keyboard from the IBM PC jr.

Steve L., I’ll see your Wang and raise you… something. In high school, we had some behemoth with a touchscreen and a giant 8″ floppy drive. I did some Pascal programming on it. I don’t remember what it was.

I worked a PHP 8 with paper tape and a teletype. In college had to do punch cards for the first year. Floppies were years away at that time.

Scott

“some behemoth with a touchscreen and a giant 8″ floppy drive. I did some Pascal programming on it. I don’t remember what it was”.

I’ll bet it was PLATO
(though TUTOR was the language of choice)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Platovterm1981.jpg

Ahh, the 300 baud modem. Gopher. Yeah, those were the days… But, “what to tweet about?” Why, tweet about your episcopal sexuality, of course. Even clowns know how important that is.

Gopher? Psh. Telnet and Usenet for the win!

And Eve was the first Multitasker.

She had an Apple in one hand, and a Wang in the other….

Mithrax, I’m a little embarrassed at how funny I found that.

PHP 8

PDP 8. trust me.

Clown and Bill2, you’ve nailed it. TEc’s bizarre message isn’t going to fly in ANY medium, so this is just a big waste of money.

King of the Gophers. I like it.

Somebody has to say it:

You kids get off my LAN!

I don’t tweet or twitter. I have no iPad, no cell phone. I have a table-top PC and a nice monitor. I don’t Facebook. My phone remains at home where it should be.

I cannot understand how following the thoughts of an idiot all day will add to my life.

I read, listen to Mozart and Keith Jarrett and Orthodox chant. I go for long walks and insult squirrels and tell arguing crows to “Shut up.” I play with my Norwegian Forest cat.

For those of you who have never met me, I will be one of the geezers in the first group called before the Obama Death Panels. I serve no useful purpose.

Hope and Change! Yes, We Can!

I remember years ago, when I first moved to Washington DC back in the 80s, there was a series of quite funny essays in the Washington Post by a Catholic priest, who, I believe (just going by memory here) had been at a predominantly black Catholic parish in town. He described the incredible boredom of having always go to diocesan seminars. One days, the seminar was on the then exciting new field of satellite technology.

The priest giving the lecture was VERY enthusiastic about employing satellite TV as an outreach tool, and he was saying very emphatically “We HAVE to keep ahead of technology! We can’t afford to miss the boat the way we did the last time there was a world-changing development in communications technology!”

The writer turned to the priest sitting next to him and murmured, “What’s he talking about?” “The printing press.”

I just remembered! It was a Plato machine. Yay, memory.

My new iPad arrives Friday; it will be #4.

Cheers

Back in the early to mid-’90s, when churches were just beginning to put sites on the Internet, I used to do some consulting helping them get up to speed. Most of the time this was at the behest of vestry members or elders, never the clergy. I quickly found out why.

I’ll never forget explaining HTML to one Episcopal priest, who glassed over immediately. It was very funny even for the people standing nearby watching the expression on his face.

Well, I still have a “grandpa box”, but it’s brushed aluminum and has a sliding panel for when I want to replace the motherboard and geek out. Strictly for the hobbyist. I have a laptop and smartphone but I’m still too cheap to fork over what Apple wants for a MacBook.

Smurf Breath wrote:

“What sorts of tweets would TEC send out to all their followers?”

Unfortunately, we know the answer to that question:

https://twitter.com/#!/episcopalchurch