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hooleydooley said:
Yes - and thank god for shows like the Notplate - I have been learning heaps LOL ......... Not a huge deal, not a huge place, but still the meet and greet part is pretty awesome, although I have to meet and greet a few that have a grudge towards me ...... LOL ... luckily the owners know that those are ones are troublesome. Been out of touch with RL people lately, so each shift and day is empowering :)

Interesting times....

Especially since I have replaced a 'younger' Lady ..... She called in sick 3 times 1/2 hr before each shift start, and the third strike was good for me! I have already put in place a few new ways, to make it all easier. Hey, it is only a couple of nights a week but it is really good $$$ and also confidence building and they FEED and WATER me as well!!!!!



Thanks :)
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I'm happy for you, hospo jobs can be good for you... As long as you don't burn out.. Seems like you have got into the swing of thing fairly quickly. Have fun with it all.
 
Connoisseur said:
I hate apple. Ever since my primary school days in the 90s I've had a very low opinion of anything related to apple because of these computers that were in my classrooms:
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To me;

Apple = the Atari of the pc world.
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Primary school days in the 90s... For some reason I though you were older than that. Hmmm :writing:

My first primary school was povo, pretty sure they did not have any computers at all. My second one had those Macs for a while. Then in years 5 and 6 made the switch over to windows. I much preferred the windows because we had a PC at home, so obviously it was easier to not have to learn the Mac operating system.
 
jessy_girl said:
My school issued us with laptops in year 5 or 6 (I forget which) and all I remember is that I wanted the colorful Macbook sooo bad and was annoyed with my shitty acer.
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Laptops? Cool. All i remember in year 5 is playing lawn bowls indoors. I think we had a computer at home. With dial-up and that funny sound it used to make. Plus you had to make sure no one was using the landline.
 
You kids don't know when you had it good. We thought an Atari was the future, Followed by a Vic 20 whose only game was tennis controlled by paddles with chunky graphics taking up half the screen to show one "bat", followed by an Amiga which loaded games off a cassette which took a mere twenty minutes or so before you could start playing.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Primary school days in the 90s... For some reason I though you were older than that. Hmmm :writing:

My first primary school was povo, pretty sure they did not have any computers at all. My second one had those Macs for a while. Then in years 5 and 6 made the switch over to windows. I much preferred the windows because we had a PC at home, so obviously it was easier to not have to learn the Mac operating system.
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O_O

Hmmm....first half of the 90s if that makes any difference. :p
 
reepbot said:
Laptops? Cool. All i remember in year 5 is playing lawn bowls indoors. I think we had a computer at home. With dial-up and that funny sound it used to make. Plus you had to make sure no one was using the landline.
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Well yes I remember that too. Not the lawn bowls, but the rest. I remember along with carrying a laptop in my school bag I had to remember to pack the blue cord to connect to the net and I pretty much always forgot it, probably for the best seeing I was 10/11 years old and supposedly there to learn not surf the net.
 
jessy_girl said:
Well yes I remember that too. Not the lawn bowls, but the rest. I remember along with carrying a laptop in my school bag I had to remember to pack the blue cord to connect to the net and I pretty much always forgot it, probably for the best seeing I was 10/11 years old and supposedly there to learn not surf the net.
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What were you there to do with your laptop?
 
jessy_girl said:
I do recall lots of typing in Microsoft word and possibly making a website about ourselves as well as playing with some virtual pets all day long.
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Was that to do with learning touch typing? Also speaking of virtual pets I remember playing with tamigotchis in primary school. Now they were a fad.
 
reepbot said:
Was that to do with learning touch typing? Also speaking of virtual pets I remember playing with tamigotchis in primary school. Now they were a fad.
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It was. I remember typing flask salad and dad (among many others) more times than I dare count. My mum was at uni at the type so she gave me the fun job of typing her assignments for her for practice.

And yes tamagotchi's were so cool, or so I thought at the time anyway.
 
jessy_girl said:
It was. I remember typing flask salad and dad (among many others) more times than I dare count. My mum was at uni at the type so she gave me the fun job of typing her assignments for her for practice.

And yes tamagotchi's were so cool, or so I thought at the time anyway.
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Do you still touch type? Or do you peck at the keyboard like a hen?[DOUBLEPOST=1439285630][/DOUBLEPOST]
Khun Khun said:
It wasn't the 70s as I did Year 12 in 79. I was using computers and a typewriter in 81 in my first job. The computers were black and white though.
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Cool. Computers sure have come a long way since then.
 
anyone remember the telex machine?

I remember coming into the office and the staff being very excited about the fax machine that arrived and saw the end of the telex machine (which was extremely tedious and time consuming)
 
reepbot said:
Do you still touch type? Or do you peck at the keyboard like a hen?[DOUBLEPOST=1439285630][/DOUBLEPOST]

Cool. Computers sure have come a long way since then.
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I still touch type, I rarely use a computer these days though so I probably need to brush up a bit.
 
Connoisseur said:
Didn't these thing cost between 3,000 and 5000 dollars when they came out? You could have easily bought at least 5 standard IBM clone pcs for the price of that 1 apple pc. You must've gone to a private school or something to have a classroom full of these. :p

As I understand it it was mainly used by Graphic Designers due to it's huge processing power (not to mention how much electrical power it chewed through), hardcore gamers, etc..

This pc was overkill for your average family needs.
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worked for a design studio back in the late 90/s and they had these ... teal , orange, lime and purple ... office manager wanted a 'pretty computer' and insisted on having an apple ... when she came to me to ask why she couldn't get excel and word to work the same way I couldn't help her ... they didn't have a right click button on mouse for all the short cuts so she had to relearn all the keyboard shortcuts - novelty soon wore off her pretty little play thing ...

as for schools - Apple used to offer schools (and the computer savy teacher at school) a good deal in order to get their computers in schools. My boys used Apples and they weren't in private schools ... and I was always annoyed because that was before i-pads / ipods / iphones so I believed their future workplace would primarily be using windows-based computers. Think their IT teacher got a freebie or two that he could on-sell to a mate and one for the principal ... so they were always going to pick the Apple option ... too bad about what was actually best for the students to be learning on!
 
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