The View From My Room Todayby Karin L. Nauber
karin@inhnews.com I am not sure what life would be like today without computers... I am composing these thoughts on a computer, although I could do this on a typewriter or on a piece of paper with a pen just as easily. But there are a lot of things I couldn’t do that I do today if computers were not around. The fact that I am writing this on a computer at my home and will either e-mail it or put it on a device to transfer it to the news office are things that I couldn’t do with a typewriter. Sure, I could carry the typewritten work with me, but I would have to retype if there were any errors and hope that I didn’t make more errors in the retyping of it! When I was in high school I remember us having a dinosaur of a computer in Mr. Schmitz’s math room. To connect, you dialed a rotary dial phone and then placed the receiver into a device that somehow connected you to a computer somewhere and this allowed you to play Oregon Trail. That was my experience with computers…. Later, we had one or maybe two Apple computers, but it seemed like only the boys were taught how to use them. I was scared I would break something, so I only touched them if I absolutely had to and if a boy was nearby to help me. I kind of laugh about it now, because as I got older, I found that it takes quite a lot to “break” computers. Don’t get me wrong, you can really mess a computer up with viruses and the like, but barring those things, you can make a lot of mistakes on today’s computers and they are relatively forgiving. Not the ones of the past, however. If you typed in the wrong information, it would send out a series of beeps that were never ending and told everyone in the vicinity that you had made a mistake. Talk about being intimidated by a machine! When I got to college, computers still were not a BIG deal, but I did find the benefit of typing my school reports on them because correcting mistakes was so much easier. I even took a programming class and wrote a very simple DOS program. I don’t remember what the program did now, probably something really silly, but the fact that I rose above being intimidated by the machine was a huge accomplishment for me. Later, after graduating, I purchased a simple word processer and later my very own Macintosh computer. Now I have owned and worked on several different computers. I have worked on both Macs and PCs and find that I enjoy the benefits that each operating system has. Now I am not afraid to try things, to push buttons and touch things that would have scared me half to death years ago. I am by no means a computer expert, but I do like using them now that they have been created more user friendly to work easily for people like me. My advice, no matter what age you are, don’t be intimidated by your computer. If you are afraid to use it, take a class—they are offered all the time—and learn how to use it to do what you want to do. Don’t let the machine control you! |
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