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GlasgowLass | Report | 12 Jan 2013 23:24 |
I am really impressed with everyone here and their reasons for getting IT literate! |
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MrDaff | Report | 12 Jan 2013 22:36 |
Ronald, I think what you are doing is brilliant - thinking of publishing at all?? |
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GinN | Report | 12 Jan 2013 22:20 |
I'm afraid that I am an absolute technophobe! In fact I can't understand howI'm posting on these boards! I was a happy librarian until our system was computerised, and left my job shortly after! |
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Ron2 | Report | 12 Jan 2013 20:14 |
I'm 72 and been "on t'net" since 2001. Son gave me his old Windows 98 pc and I taught myself how to use it with help from some "Help Lines" via Email - son and ex mil mates. I use Face Book as do a lot of my old ex mil mates - some 2 or 3 years older than me. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 12 Jan 2013 19:43 |
wonderful Elizabeth - good for you!!!!! |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 12 Jan 2013 19:31 |
As I got deafer and deafer I lthought I'd better learn about emails, signed up for a class and found I should l have first learnt about computers! Signed up for a computer class but was by then too deaf to follow it, and had no computer to practice on - someone gave me a v. old computer - so old I couldn't get a printer to fit it! and my daughter gave me a text book from the college where she was working with which I learnt a lot of word skills - and then when that computer packed up I bought a real one - this was about ten years ago and I'm now 78 - life began again! deafness meant no radio, no telephone v. limited social talk - and suddently it was a new world opening.. And new interests, discovered geneaology! It is a real bonus for the handicapped and housebound, please all of you encourage your older family to use them. |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 12 Jan 2013 18:54 |
Thanks Ann I will practise it. :-D :-S |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 12 Jan 2013 18:44 |
can you really not c& p Barb? very easy |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 12 Jan 2013 18:39 |
Naughty to say really but my step g.dau has 3 nans. Me being the only one with a mobile, drives and is on line. She thinks I'm cool. |
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JustJohn | Report | 12 Jan 2013 18:14 |
An uncle of mine developed quite bad Parkinsons at 80 (he is 88 now). He loved writing to people, but writing was getting indecipherable. He could use a keyboard so decided to buy a computer and he has mastered it much better than me. |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 12 Jan 2013 17:43 |
Good for you Bette. My son tries to help me at times but he goes through it so quickly that by the time he leaves my brain is scrambled and I am back to square one. |
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Loopylou | Report | 12 Jan 2013 17:34 |
hi lm 71yrs old,l had a computor as a present ,a couple of years ago,l didnt even know how to switch it on, l spent all xmas trying to what to do....help was at hand.l joined evening classes.my local council runs for OAP...(free) so l was up and away. l am doing my family tree ,and if l get in a mess,you lovely people always sort it out ,,l would like to thank everyone who has helped me,and for finding Rellis l never even knew about, |
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Budgie Rustler | Report | 12 Jan 2013 16:28 |
There are three signs of old age. The first is one's loss of memory, the other two I forget. |
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~`*`Jude`*`~ | Report | 12 Jan 2013 16:27 |
Brilliant:))....l so wish my sister would atleast try using her laptop....grrrrr |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 12 Jan 2013 15:53 |
Robert, thats brilliant |
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Robert | Report | 12 Jan 2013 15:42 |
My mother is well into her eighties, try and take her laptop of her she would kill you ,she loves it as she can keep in contact with all the family and freinds |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 12 Jan 2013 13:54 |
I worked for a large company and was the first divisional office in the country to go computerized. I had a large input into the programmimg required and then taught managers from other regions when we went national with it. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 12 Jan 2013 13:31 |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 12 Jan 2013 13:04 |
I have a few problems with all this new technology and some of my friends won't even try things out saying " oh no, couldn't do that" etc. |
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