When working, the young ones knew everything about their cell phones but I had to teach them everything about Access, Excel and PowerPoint!
Agree. How about debugging Assembler code using multiple Microfiche output negatives instead of hard copy paper? That’s patience, I tell ya.
Digital? Yes. Worked for them for awhile.
IBM DOS, MS DOS, IBM PC, to modern computers and OSs. Smart phones, only as a user.
Apple. A little. Apple make a good product but it is not a good value. I have been burned too many times.
Interesting story... the evolution of all things computer.
WinTel have changed our lives forever, employed hundreds of millions of people, made trillions of dollars for companies.
You forgot to shake your cane at us and scream, “You kids stay off of my lawn! “
j/k
As an analogy: Just because you watch TV, that does not make you a TV repairman.
I learned on DOS computers. Forgot it all now.
I am 67 and I started working on computers (Honeywells, or Honeybuckets as we referred to them) when I joined the Air Force in the early 70’s and started building my own in the late 80s and for many years I switched every year from buying one off the shelf one year then building one from scratch the next year and I did this until about 15 years ago when I stopped using desktops so much in favor of laptops and tablets. I usually keep about half a dozen current versions of each and I still keep a state-of-the-art desktop just in case I need need a powerhouse. The only regret I have is all that time I spent early on when PC operating software was terrible and having nightmares with things like IRQs, limited power supply size, and so on. Todays computers are chimp friendly and even a moron can usually use one. So todays youth is not nearly as intelligent as they think they are. They have always had flawless plug-and-play not plug-and-pray as we old timers had. How many young ones know anything about machine code and could input one? Could they even explain a cksum. I doubt it, everything is under a well polished GUI and that is far as their knowledge goes. I was in the computer section at Best Buy a few years ago and I asked the clerk where to find a dongle. She looked at me with a blank expression and it was obvious she was clueless.
Burroughs, I learned on Burroughs...
I can use punch cards and am very familiar with a card sorter.