"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

Better yet, remember the 10 inch floppies?

Yep.  And the 10 inch (I think).

I used to work mainly as a typist/typesetter.  So I starte4d using
computer-like equipment before most companies were computerized.  I had
my first experience with the actual Internet (or its precursor?) in 1982
or '83.  I worked on a Xerox 850 (thus, the 10-inch floppies), and
someone came in and put a board into it.  I was working for a scientific
department at a large university at the time, so they were cutting-edge
I suppose.  Anyway, they also gave me one of those *huge* rubber stick
directly on the phone modems.  lol!  Mostly all I did was e-mail people
at NOAA, but it was cool to be texting someone in another state.  Seemed
like magic to me!

Ginger-lyn
"DOS Dinosaur"

Then there were those huge reams of dot-matrix paper.  Those long
edges that came off-- my cat would end up with those.  She loved
dragging them around the floor. ;)  Just more evidence that everything
is a cat toy. ;)

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

I just remembered, she didn't write "Yuck". It was "P.U." I thought that
was funny enough to be worth clarifying. :) She wrote "P.U." next to each
Beatle's face except one of them, who got "Cute" or maybe "OK". I don't
remember which one she liked.

That's funny. I had that single when I was 6. It might have been my first
record, too.

We had this pole in the basement, perhaps it was there to hold the ground
floor up. :) I used to grab onto it with one hand and walk round, and around,
and around that pole, singing along with "Puff", which was on automatic
repeat. Fortunately, I was alone at the time, so nobody was driven insane
by hearing that song 57 times in a row!

I think in some quarters, it never really went out of style. I remember
in the 90s, when vinyl was considered *gone*, people who were into
independent rock and punk music were always talking about buying a "7-inch".
What the h*ll was a 7-inch, I used to wonder. Someone finally explained
that it was a vinyl record, 7 inches in diameter. Oh, I said, you mean a
45! Nope, they're played at 33 RPM. And they had a tiny hole in the middle,
not the larger one that 45s used to have. But they were vinyl!

Also, there's the high-end audiophile contingent that has always looked
down on digital media. As one person described it, digital is only an
approximation of the real sound, just as digital photography is an
approximation of a real image. Real people aren't represented in discreet
pixels - we're continuous beings. :) Ditto for sound. As they put it, with
vinyl, you get the "whole curve" rather than tiny steps approximating a
curve. But I'm not an audiophile, so I really can't tell the difference.

Which reminds me of this Unix fortune:

 audiophile, n:
     Someone who listens to the equipment instead of the music.

Hee hee...

Joyce