[Kathy in Alaska]

Word and Excel are sorta self-taught here too. I'm old! The one computer class I took in Junior Collage had these, maybe 12x12 or bigger, boards that you plugged things into....like the switchboards of old. My brain had a very hard time with the concept.

This is a telephone switchboard, but the things we plugged in looked just like it.

U.S. Air Force Sgt. Suzann K. Harry, of Wildwood, N.J., operates a switchboard in the underground command post at Strategic Air Command headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., in 1967.

Very cool that you are enjoying yourself. Is your home computer behaving?

[oldteen]

Boy, that brings back memories! Looks just like the switchboard I worked at PT&T waaaay back! Also worked Information..and what was called the CAMA board (said ‘Your Number Please’...lol).

[BIGLOOK]

Is your home computer behaving?

Only when threatened by another diagnostic test performed by an IT proctologist. Otherwise it's been behaving normally.

I see that young Airman working happily on the new technology that was then. Outside the classroom I see young students busily typing away on I-pads, text phones and all sorts of miniature electronic devices while my classmates and I are carrying notebooks and a workbook.

None of the students have pen in their shirt pockets or clipped to their t-shirts.

Perish the thought of a power outage that could cripple education. But maybe that in itself would be an education.

[beachn4fun]

my GOD! That hair style is back in vogue, right?

LOL