This is Jim Kiler wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
When I started out of a newspaper reporter, I used this:
https://img.money.com/2014/09/140911_inv_radioshack.jpgIn my next job as a writer and editor for a magazine publisher, I used this:
https://mercari-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/photos/m77335878796_1.jpg?1592044132I didn't work for a company that had internet access until 1995, and at that company we were forbidden from using it for anything other than work purposes (this was strictly monitored and enforced).
I used that EXACT same 'laptop' when I'd go to the police department to record violations that I might not have heard about otherwise. I'd go back to the office, scroll through what I'd typed, and input into a Mac like that. (A few years earlier I did the same with an even more ancient 'word processor,' and a Tandy TRS-80 machine that output to huge floppy disks.)
But I set up an AppleTalk network for the Macs, and my copy would find its way to our Power Computing machines.
I still have a pile of 80s computers, and it's amazing how fast they actually were. When you don't have a browser open with 37 tabs, and aren't streaming loads of stuff, they actually run.
Flagpole, I wonder if you worked in a Rocky Mountain state newspaper office?
Nope. I was a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, OH.