[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I remember. I took typing...

I took typing as well, in high school. Got pretty good; don't remember my WPM. Basically forgot how and now use two fingers and hunt-and-peck.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I don't know, she wasn't my type.

Groooaaann

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I took typing as well, in high school. Got pretty good; don't remember my WPM. Basically forgot how and now use two fingers and hunt-and-peck.

I took typing and typed virtually everything from then on all through college. To this day I still can't touch type. I can barely write my signature due to using a pen only rarely for decades. But the ability to type without looking at the keys has always eluded me.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I took typing as well, in high school. Got pretty good; don't remember my WPM. Basically forgot how and now use two fingers and hunt-and-peck.

Same here. I got so good I got to use the typewriter with a blank keyboard! Now... it's hunt & peck.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Groooaaann

I'm sorry. I can't seem to help it.

[Vindicator3]

I actually took typing in HS because the computer revolution was obviously coming (these were the days of the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64 at home, but still the IBM Selectric in typing class). It's one of the best decisions I ever made, as I can still touch type to this day, and over the years more and more of my life is spent at a keyboard (but not for too much longer, I hope - the keyboard part that is, not the life part). Never got my wpm up anywhere close to professional secretary range, but so much better than if I'd never taken the class and was stuck with the two-finger method.

[Esteban]

^ Had both the computers mentioned, plus an Apple ll.

[Lady Jane]

If you owned something like this:

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

If you owned something like this:

Probably works better than our existing "toaster" oven. It tends to make bread warm, but hardly toasted.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Probably works better than our existing "toaster" oven. It tends to make bread warm, but hardly toasted.

We have a toaster oven, it sucks for making toast. I want a traditional toaster again but my wife likes her toaster oven.

Maybe I'll buy myself a 'toaster' for Christmas. Thanks, Santa.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Esteban

We have a toaster oven, it sucks for making toast. I want a traditional toaster again but my wife likes her toaster oven.

Maybe I'll buy myself a 'toaster' for Christmas. Thanks, Santa.

I have both. I use the toaster for toast and the toaster oven for heating up food.

[Vindicator3]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I have both. I use the toaster for toast and the toaster oven for heating up food.

Same. Then we replaced the toaster oven with an Anova Precision Oven. It has some quirks but I absolutely love it (countertop convection/steam). Cook very few things in the regular oven anymore. But still use the toaster for toast.

[MaxVO2]

Originally Posted by Esteban

^ Had both the computers mentioned, plus an Apple ll.

****Apple II+ here with 64k and a Novation Apple CAT modem with the optional 212 1200 baud full-duplex card which cost a LOT of money back then (about $80)...

I eventually upgraded it to 128k and got a sweet Rana Elite disk drive that allowed for more storage on each floppy disk.... And then....The Macintosh computer came out in 1984.... Game changer.

[MaxVO2]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

If you owned something like this:


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****I bought one of those at an antique store in my area! It works *remarkably* well. Better than my fancy GE toaster with various settings I literally never use.

My effing toaster is WiFi enabled!!! It sucks as a toaster but tells me when my "toast" is at least lukewarm...

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I have both. I use the toaster for toast and the toaster oven for heating up food.

I wish we had the counter space for that. One of the things I don't like about our house is the kitchen layout. No viable way to change it, though.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I wish we had the counter space for that. One of the things I don't like about our house is the kitchen layout. No viable way to change it, though.

I only keep the toaster oven on the counter. Toaster stays in the cabinet when not in use.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I only keep the toaster oven on the counter. Toaster stays in the cabinet when not in use.

Lack of cabinet space is another thing I don't like about our kitchen. LOL

Basically, our kitchen is too small. Our house was custom built for a single retired professor. Small kitchen and bathroom. Not much room to expand either one.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by MaxVO2

And then....The Macintosh computer came out in 1984.... Game changer.

Yep, was always an Apple guy, still am. Got the first Mac when it came out; a whopping 128 KB of ram. Then got a "fat Mac" with 512 KB of ram. Didn't know what to do with all that memory.

And now look at us...

[M_Six]

My first experience with Macs was such a nightmare that it kept me away from them for years. Now I have more Mac devices than I know what to do with. Wifey still uses Windoze and I have a headless Win11 machine, but I hate working with them now. And I was a Windows admin for decades.

[Esteban]

^ Don’t believe I ever owned an IBM compatible, as they used to be called.

[RickFLM4]

My dad was one of the first salespeople for Apple in RI and I had a job in the warehouse there, so I got to use the Lisa, Mac, Apple II and so one. He won an Apple IIc in a sales contest, which eventually became mine for a while.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by Esteban

^ Don’t believe I ever owned an IBM compatible, as they used to be called.

<--- Assembled an IBM XT compatible computer from parts...at a computer show...in the parking lot...using only a 1970's Honda motorcycle toolkit. I was 150 miles from home, and didn't have enough room in my saddle bags to carry all of the parts in their original packages.....