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My first computer experience...
As a junior in high school, I had American Literature in a classroom that was kind of
a computer lab. This was my first actual computer experience. I thought it was weird, but cool that I could type
and edit right on the screen, then print out my document. But, I never understood the concept of a thesis statement,
and figured that kind of writing was for the birds (or nerds). I now feel that my teacher, at the time, was more interested
in how we were getting along with the Mac II's than how well we understood what a thesis statement was. We had to use
these rather large and flimsy 5.25 floppy disks to save our essays on. I chucked that thing a long time ago, but wish now I kept it,
just for sentimentality's sake.
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My second computer experience...
Another class I had to take as a junior in high school was a computer literacy
course. While I learned to do cool things with programming -- things I couldn't remember for the world -- I learned
next to nothing about computer literacy, outside of basic functions, like how to turn the stinkin' thing on. What was
different from my first experience was that we used IBM computers and had to use 3.5" floppy disks, smaller and less flimsy than the 5.25". To which my father replied, "Why do you need a different
kind of disk? Don't all those computers take the same kind?" I think he was old-fashioned before he became old-fashioned,
poor guy. Though 3.5" floppies are still used they are now becoming a thing of the past, rapidly being replaced with
USB drives, a.k.a. thumb drives or flash drives.
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