Haha! Ya you are!

I made that photo back-in-the-day before auto syntax spell checking lol

 

Oh, I understand spelling errors, believe me. Especially after starting my typing career on an IBM Selectric typewriter my parents owned. They had a regular text ball, and a "cursive" text ball you could swap in. Anyone remember "cursive??
I got some great grades on reports, and stuff I had to do for school. I learned early on to watch my spelling carefully, though. My parents were stingy about erasers, ribbons, and paper, so...

Ok, shutting up, now.
Pat☺

 

Dang you are old!!!! Haha

 

[QUOTE=2 They had a regular text ball, and a "cursive" text ball you could swap in. Anyone remember "cursive?

Started my electronic career with IBM repairing vacuum tube main frame computers that had an IBM Executive typewriter as an input/output device.
The customer could purchase the option of two choices of fonts for the typed output, Roman, and Italic.
When he wanted to swap font styles, it required a service call for the engineer(me) to swap out the whole unit. Sometimes daily.
So much for your girly text balls (" Oh! they're so heavy") We did it the He-Man way.
Art.

 

[QUOTE=ZARTT;52469083][QUOTE=2 They had a regular text ball, and a "cursive" text ball you could swap in. Anyone remember "cursive?

Started my electronic career with IBM repairing vacuum tube main frame computers that had an IBM Executive typewriter as an input/output device.
The customer could purchase the option of two choices of fonts for the typed output, Roman, and Italic.
When he wanted to swap font styles, it required a service call for the engineer(me) to swap out the whole unit. Sometimes daily.
So much for your girly text balls (" Oh! they're so heavy") We did it the He-Man way.
Art.[/QUOTE]

The things we take for granted today!!!

 

Oh yeah, the good old IBM mainframes run on vacuum tubes. Wire wrapped ferrite cores for RAM memory, tape drives spinning in burts, and later those huge platter disks they came up with for longer term memory and program storage.
Then there were the teletype machines with the phone cradle that you could dial into the mainframe, and, once connected, put in a punched paper tape to install the program you wanted to run. Star Trek with the little asterisks and so forth is what we used a lot. Everyone had a case of some sort with all their paper tapes, rolled up tight.
There were rumors you get into the school's mainframe and change grades, absences, etc. <Ahem> Not that *I* ever did anything like that. Not ME. I was a good boy! <ahem>

Thing I really liked was when my father bought the first Pong game that ever came out. Hooked it up to our console color TV, and let us kids play one hour per day. IF our homework was done. No problem, I did mine at school after class let out. Until my GF wanted more attention, which she certainly got, in spades. Oh well, farewell Pong! The trade was MORE than worthwhile to me...

I guess I is approaching lower middle age...
Semper Fi, all!
Pat☺

 

Haha, that's awesome!