[ale] OT: 3D Printers, Walmart & CES

[Lightner, Jeff]

Secretaries don't necessarily know it either.  One I knew regularly had to call me because she could NOT remember how to do simple data input into a spreadsheet.

Eventually I modified the sheet so it automatically loaded macros that took her from field to field and restricted what data she could input in each and prevented her from moving on until she'd entered data and hit enter on each field.   I then made that an auto-load spreadsheet so whenever Lotus 123 was started it would pull up that sheet.   I then set the autoexec.bat in DOS to automatically start Lotus 123 on boot.

After that I only had to remind her to turn on the PC.

The original "A" model of the IBM 8088 PC couldn't even take 640 K RAM like the later "B" model could as I found out to my chagrin on trying to upgrade one of the former once.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Scott Castaline
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:13 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: 3D Printers, Walmart & CES

The original PC (88) no A B or C just 1701 oops wrong script! Damm it I'm a Nix Geek not a secretary!!!


On 01/09/2014 01:34 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
You young whippersnappers that didn't work on Xenix on a 286 annoy me.

Get off my lawn!

From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 1:29 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: 3D Printers, Walmart & CES



On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com<mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>> wrote:
On 01/09/2014 12:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com<mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>> wrote:


You don't have near enough gray hair for that statement. Shut up and pony up the money! You know you want it !

Most the pictures you see on FB I have a hat on.  Trust me, most my hair is grey.  Look at the beard.
                                              ^^^^^
        I read this as having no space and began to really wonder if this was the Chris i was think of...

This year marks the 20th anniversary that I've been working with Linux. 20 years....

This is my 21st year as a Linux professional. Wow!






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