Comments on: A Discussion with Alexander Galloway on Protocol @ University of Amsterdam

By: Anne Helmond

Anne Helmond — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:08:16 +0000

@GUnite Ja, maar kan @ThE_ED ook Logos? http://bit.ly/a7yEwv – Dat is de vraag!

By: Anne Helmond

Anne Helmond — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:42:10 +0000

@dezusvankarlijn Oh, geweldig! Doet me denken aan Logos op de Atari http://bit.ly/a7yEwv – Heerlijk he? Praten over hoe het toen was?

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:22:27 +0000

WordPerfect!!! You are a memory magnet, aren’t you? :D

There was something so satisfying about the manual pounding of the keys and the automatic grabbing of the metal letter arms to pull them back when the fingers moved faster than the mechanism. Now, I hate it when keyboard “make” noises. I’d rather hear silence. What a twisted way to thing, but thank you for reminding me how much I wish I, too, could go back to only two instructions to get anything done on a computer. SIGH.

By: anne

anne — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:23:11 +0000

I love hearing “ancient” computer-related stories, thank you for sharing your wonderful.

I remember writing my first essays on a manual typing machine and the wonderful sound the keys made. I really had to get used to WordPerfect for writing as you had to manually code italic, bold, paragraphs and the whole layout.

I also have fond memories of the old “soft” floppy disks. Nowadays I just use my iPod to transfer files, I only burn DVDs if I have to snailmail someone.

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By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:10:17 +0000

Wonderful. I did my first programming on the Commodore computers (eek!) as a young teenager, but I had been working with full frame computers and the first “dumb” computerized typewriters long before that with my family’s business. Hmm, I’d have to say that my first interaction with machine coding was on a teletype in my mother’s real estate office before I turned seven or eight…wow! I’d already started learning to type on her old manual keyboard, pounding my fingers great distances so the key would hit the paper, and she let me practice typing in sales ads into the rattling teletype machine.

So you are not the only one to whom modern technologies can spin off ancient, dust-covered memories! Thanks for the flashback.

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