Fountain pens were a special delight to those of us who are left- handed. I'd drag my hand over the still-wet ink, smearing my paper and depositing an ugly blue stain on the side of my hand. Pearl Rosenberg TeleHealth Services
----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Shuttleworth <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:11 am Subject: RE: No-tech; was: Funny To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Fountain pen!?? > We had monitors before anyone could afford a fountain pen. Ink > monitors.It was their job each morning for a week to fill up the > inkwell on each > desk. Then we dipped our nibbed pens into the inkwells and started to > write. Nibbed pens were fun. You could use them to flick ink > across the > room (the walls and ceiling bore testimony of this), or, if preferred, > onto the back of the girl in front. In combination with a strong > rubberband they also made fairly lethal weapons. Can't do any of > those fun > things these days... > > And I still have a Parker 61 fountain pen that was given to me in > 1969,and it still works fine. > > Roger Shuttleworth > London, Ontario > Canada > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers- > bounces+rshuttleworth=activplant.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- bounces+rshuttleworth=activplant.com at lists.frameusers.co > m] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:11 AM > To: Roberts, Katie; framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: OT: No-tech; was: Funny > > Ah yes, the good old(en) days of low-tech. Or maybe I should say > no-tech. > > I wrote my first reports with a hand-held device. Nope, not a Palm > Pilot or > a hand held PC. This hand-held device was called a FOUNTAIN PEN. > Remember > fountain pens? Smeary, smelly ink that got all over your fingers and > took > forever to dry. You had to write each letter by hand. And there > was no > such thing as white-out. Make a mistake? Do the whooole page over. > :-( > > Ball point pens came out a few years later. And white out too. > Wheee.Calculators did not come out 'till after I was out of > college. Changed > the > world - if you could afford one, that is. > > We use CAD to design things today. Back in college we used something > called > a drafting board. And we used hand-held devices called PENCILS. They > were > better than fountain pens because you could actually erase your > mistakesand > not have to do the whole page over. :-) > > The first computer I ever used had tubes in it. It cost a million > dollars > and would add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Programming was in > assembly > language. Punch cards and green-bar printouts. Advanced technology? > Well, > maybe. Make mistake? Do the whole punch card over. And watch out for > hanging chad. Whoops, no, we didn't have hanging chad back then. > Thatwas > invented in the "election" of 2000. > > Kids today don't know how easy they have it. Hey, kids 10 years ago > don't > know how easy they had it, either. > > The fun (and funny) thing about all this is that every generation says > the > same thing about how easy their kids have it. And it'll probably be > true > 100 years from now. > > Diane Gaskill > Lockheed-Martin Space Systems > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com] On > Behalf Of Roberts, Katie > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:32 PM > To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: RE: Funny > > I'm 47 and have been taking on-line classes since 2002. It is > great! It > is so much better to be able to attend classes in your pajamas. Way > back, in the long, long ago, I had to type my reports on a manual > typewriter and depended heavily on white out or the correction paper. > Heck, I even used a telex machine in one of my first jobs. > Thank heavens for technology. > > Katie Roberts > Ohmart/VEGA Corp. > Cincinnati, OH > 513-272-0524x167 > "The important thing is not to stop questioning." > Albert Einstein > > Vote for Char James-Tanny for STC International Secretary! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces+kroberts=ohmartvega.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers- > bounces+kroberts=ohmartvega.com at lists.frameusers.com] On > Behalf Of Joe Malin > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:51 PM > To: Gillian Flato; framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: RE: Funny > > What really *bugs* me (and I'm *much* older than 30) is how good > sciencestudents in college got it now. > > I majored in Chemistry in undergrad. I had to type science papers > on a > portable typewriter, make photocopies of instrument outputs or data > plots and then do a massive paste-up job. We had primitive > calculators,but also relied on slide rules. Need something from an > instrument or a > test? Get up at 2 am and *walk to the source*. Ugh. > > Did computer science in grad school. On a mainframe (double ugh). No > dial-up; had ride downtown to the computer lab to get on a terminal, > then hang around until 2 AM so turnaround on jobs was less than 20 > minutes. Had to wait until *3 AM* to get access to the computer > graphicsequipment. > > I wouldn't wish any of it on a blind dog. I'm not "better" for having > done it the hard way, just probably more burned out and less educated. > What frustrates *me* is that a modern CS student gets to have an > ultra-powerful computer *plus* the Internet, and do so many *fun > things*!!! :( Boo-hoo. I wanna be a student again! Boy, if Doom 2 had > been around when I was a college student, I'd still be in school. > > > Joe Malin > Technical Writer > (408)625-1623 > jmalin at tuvox.com > www.tuvox.com > The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and > do not > necessarily reflect those of TuVox, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com] On > BehalfOf Gillian Flato > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:22 AM > To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: OT: Funny > > Just thought you guys might enjoy this... > > Hard Times related by a 30 year old. > > When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious > diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what > with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning... uphill BOTH > ways... through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings > on their backs... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they > maintained a > straight-A average, despite their full-time, after-school job at the > local textile mill... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to > help keep their family from starving to death! > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as > rshuttleworth at activplant.com. > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rshuttleworth% 40acti > vplant.com > > Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The information in this email is confidential and is > intended solely for the addressee. 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