computers

Computer CTRL

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Hey Kids,

Remember when you found out that CTRL+X was the “cut” command? CTRL-C copied it instead? Or that CTRL+V pasted those things back onto wherever you needed it?

Or the little window button returned you to the windows menu? It was like being told of a secret code, let in on a little known fact.

Function+F is an invaluable find function on any page or document. How did I ever not know that, and how did I ever function?Idiot-computer-warning-funny

I find it incredible that so many hidden commands hide within the keyboard of the computer. How many functions hide within the program commands in some of the programs I use every day?

Just exactly how dumb am I?

 

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I’ve Only Done Windows

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Hey Kids,

I’m not one of the early pioneers. I started out in the computer world using Windows 95. I played a little in DOS but I can do nothing beyond what I have been explicitly told to do.

My first personal machine was a Windows 98 computer, from right around that same year. It was hot. Pentium II 266 processor. 64MB (yes MB) of RAM. It seemed like over kill then. And a 4 GB hard drive. It was as much as I could afford, saving money by putting it together with a lot of help from a friend who know what he was doing.

Today I spent a little time reminiscing about the old days of computing. I came in mid-stream of the computer revolution but it was still exciting times.IMG_20150717_202434_168

I hadn’t spoke of these things for a very long time and Windows 95 was forever ago.

Yet walking through a second hand store, in the book section I found the ultimate throwback to those times: Windows 95 for Dummies.

I confess, I could’ve used this book.

When did you enter the computer world?

 

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