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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Ya know, as little as 18 years ago I was pounding away on a manual typewriter at every opportunity, sending fishing articles off left and right to any and all magazine outlets that would give me the time to at least consider them. Probably got about 25 printed over the years in different mags and many more in fishing news paperbacks of one sort or another. But I won't drift to far from the jest of this thread.
Ten years ago I bought my first PC. Man, it was as intimidating as my first real date with a girl. Didn't know how to approach it. Was ignorant of it's workings. And God forbid if I touched the wrong thing, before knowing the rules and the consequences. Wow, that's spooky huh? Little change in that category.
Anyway, I was thrust into the PC world virtualy blind, yet have really accepted and surprisingly have learned quite fast about it's workings. I wouldn't call myself a hacker yet by any means, but I get by.
So when I picked up a new HP dvd Writer the other day and started having trouble getting it to function properly, I didn't panic. And today I just finished putting together a DVD slide show for my seminars and sports shows booths with 210 charter pictures on it. Along with an overlay of some of my favorite music. Put some fancy peel and fade effects in there as well, and made a really nice presentation of it.
I paid a guy over $300.00 a year ago to make me a video collage for my seminars and shows. I put one together yesterday in about 2 hours with this gizmo. Can you imagine what things will be common place in the next 20 years?
Edited by walleye express 2/18/2004 5:12 PM
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Location: Westland, Mich. | hey dan. do you remember that first bread slicer?lol. yeh, you got to marvel at all the techno stuff. my first pc was given to me by a friend who put it together from the scraps his company threw away when they upgraded. it was an ibm xt with a 10 meg hard drive. somewhere about 1990, the kids and i really cut our teeth on that machine. still, when i have trouble i yell for the older boy to help me out. |
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Location: Rhinelander | if you had told me ten years ago I would be this dependant on a computer, I would have had a good laugh and walked away marveling at your odd assessment.
Now I have three, on 24/7.
CD/DVD Burners, external hard drives, Mac G4 Platforms and Final Cut, card readers, photo programs, servers, reboots, ISP, IP, floppy, PDA, wirless NIC, whatever the heck, more than I can keep up with. |
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