{"id":8003,"date":"2003-07-17T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/17\/confessions-of-an-aging-computer-geek\/"},"modified":"2003-07-17T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T18:02:30","slug":"confessions-of-an-aging-computer-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/confessions-of-an-aging-computer-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of an aging computer geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Yesterday I worked on upgrading my computer with more memory and added a video card that had two monitor outputs and a TV tuner.  I got used to using two monitors at work which gives you a lot of screen space to use and it has the added advantage of looking really geeky.  As a kid was influenced by the Dr. Suess movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdverdict.com\/reviews\/5000fingers.shtml\">The 5000 fingers of Dr. T<\/a>&#8220;, it had keyboards everywhere.  So I have worked to be surrounded by keyboards, monitors and other peripherals to match that theme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Originally in High School before the advent of the personal computer I learned BASIC but only had the school mainframe to work with via teletype.  A little later I worked with the first PC the ALTAIR 8080 that inputed information via octal switches on the front.  Over time I went through a couple Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga 500 (a great computer), IBM XT, 286, 286, 486. and many flavors of the Pentium.  What this all leads to is an &#8220;old timers&#8221; attitude in relation to technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">If I buy memory I think &#8220;I remember only using 36k&#8221; or buying 1 Meg at $100.  When I get a hardrive I remember using tape drives, and then floppies, and then a whopping 10 Meg hardrive.  Each purchase brings a &#8220;remember when.&#8221;  So far these thoughts have been mainly internal and I have resisted telling my kids things like &#8220;When I was young I didn&#8217;t have a calculator, but a slide rule and I knew how to use it&#8221; or &#8220;I remember file sharing was borrowing a record and copying it to cassette.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I worked on upgrading my computer with more memory and added a video card that had two monitor outputs and a TV tuner. I got used to using two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}