Monthly ArchiveAugust 2007
Bells and Whistles 14 Aug 2007 07:45 am
A New Computer Experience
Remember the first PC’s? The big heavy IBM-like AT’s? 8088’s? CGA, VGA, SVGA monitors. The bigger the better and heavier too. It was a struggle for some of us, me in particular, to learn DOS. Directories, files, folders. When to use forward slash and back slash. .bat, .config or config.bat, and *.* if you didn’t know… I was given a program called “Pathminder” from a friend of mine that really helped me do what I wanted more easily without having to get everything typed in just right. Then Microsoft came along with Windows. Apple never was in my picture back then for some reason. I liked the GUI’s. I thought they were cute and kinda made sense in some ways but I never looked into Apple or Macintosh. I was caught up in the Microsoft storm of sorts sweeping the PC world, and I tried to keep up with it and learning all the new things that came along. But I never could. I got to the point of feeling a little bit like it is hopeless to try. Helpless in some ways.
Bilge 07 Aug 2007 05:14 pm
A Spinning Compass
Its kind of like the reports we hear about someone’s experience who survived the Bermuda Triangle. Disorientation, malfunctioning compass, strange occurrences and visions that appear so real yet, uncertain if it is or not.
Reality is up for grabs and they are all alone to try and define it for their survival. They just want to get out and back to familiar circumstances of their reality as they understand it. That is kind of how I feel and yet it seems that defining “familiar”, perhaps “stability” is illusive.