Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for July 28, 2015

LOL

Seniors and electronics….gotta love them!

Yep, this happens with my mom all the time. It’ll be interesting to see if it happens with the generations that grew up with electronics..Hello Cathy friends! Hope you have a great day!

Our generation didn’t grow up with computers, because personal ones hadn’t even been thought of then! But my OH was a telecomms tech for 25 years, and he went all the way from the old-fashioned push-in-plug type of exchanges to programming the new computer ones.

He left after 25 years and went into other kinds of work, but because he had that grounding in computers he never became afraid of them – and when personal ones appeared, he was an early user of them.

Now of course the technology has leapt ahead, and a modern computer is not much like the ones he worked on in the past. But we still have a computer each, and use them all the time. Yes – even in our sixties! And most of the time – they behave reasonably well for us.

:-D

I first started using a computer regularly for work and graduate school in the 1990s when I was in my mid-forties to mid-fifties. Now I’m 70 and don’t have much trouble keeping up with the updates that seem to occur every time my back is turned! But I still have an ancient cell phone, not a smart phone. I’m just not ready to carry a tiny computer around with me wherever I go – I really enjoy my time spent off-line.

Heck, this happens to me all too often—and I consider myself pretty darned computer-savvy. AACK, anyone?

HI, MOM. Hello, Clan.

My first job (1966) was a keypunch operator for IBM cards and I worked on some of the systems that later became programs like “Word” etc. I also had a very early PC and tho I can usually figure out most of what I want from my IPhone — it still stumps me occasionally.

Oh, iPhones and smartiepants phones are a different matter! I wouldn’t have one of those things if you paid me.

I like to have a computer for computering purposes, and a basic mobile phone for texting family occasionally. And never the twain shall meet, or get confused about which is which.