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LOL, well, it's not the 80's anymore! Yeah, we had a Commodore 64 mainly because it was user friendly (to me) and the price was a big expense but I convinced my husband it was good for the kids! LOL
Well, LOL, the kids soon griped it was not like their friends who had IBM's rather quickly!
One son (with whom I live) has all iPad tablets, Mac desktop and iPhones - and we have an on going rivalry about it. The other son, who is IT, doesn't care for them at all (thank goodness). He's had iPhones and couldn't wait to change them.
My sister and her son are all Mac people too. Although at one point she went with something else for her desktop, but 4 years later suddenly went back to Mac.
As The World Turns....

What is the best selling computer of all time?
The Guinness Book of World Records says the C64 is the best selling single computer model of all time with sales of about 30 million units between 1982 and 1993. Commodore blew it, though, and bigger companies like IBM got into the act. Dell, Apple and other PC manufacturers have since dominated the market.
 
dragnlaw said:
LOL - I get such a kick out people who use iPads, iPhones, Mac's. Just can't bring them selves to use the name for what they are.
They are tablets, cellphones, desktop computers. LOL Doesn't matter who makes them they are still tablets, cellphones, desktop computers!

I drive a Van, or I say I drive a car or vehicle - I don't say I drive a Caravan nor do I say I drive a GM or Chrysler.

I wear jeans - I don't say I wear Lee's or B.U.M. or any other brand.
Same with a purse or handbag, I don't say "I'll just grab my Walmart knockoff Gucci and be right with you."

I also watch TV - I don't watch my Samsung, Sony, LG.
I also put things in the oven, not the LG
and I put things in the fridge, not the LG - Can you imagine a recipe that says "spread the batter in the prepared pan evenly and put in the LG for 30 to 35 minutes."

rant over....
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If someone asks me what I drive, I reply with Honda CR-V because that's what people want to know. If I answered with, "a small SUV", the next question would invariably be "what kind".

There is a distinction between Apple desktops and PC's (all brands) because they use different operating systems, just as there is a distinction between iPhones and all Android phones. When most people talk about computers they make this distinction. You are not required to do so.
 
dragnlaw said:
LOL, well, it's not the 80's anymore! Yeah, we had a Commodore 64 mainly because it was user friendly (to me) and the price was a big expense but I convinced my husband it was good for the kids! LOL
Well, LOL, the kids soon griped it was not like their friends who had IBM's rather quickly!
One son (with whom I live) has all iPad tablets, Mac desktop and iPhones - and we have an on going rivalry about it. The other son, who is IT, doesn't care for them at all (thank goodness). He's had iPhones and couldn't wait to change them.
My sister and her son are all Mac people too. Although at one point she went with something else for her desktop, but 4 years later suddenly went back to Mac.
As The World Turns....

What is the best selling computer of all time?
The Guinness Book of World Records says the C64 is the best selling single computer model of all time with sales of about 30 million units between 1982 and 1993. Commodore blew it, though, and bigger companies like IBM got into the act. Dell, Apple and other PC manufacturers have since dominated the market.
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My dad had a TRS80 from Radio Shack, followed by an Apple 2C, then a Macintosh, like mine. I don't know why, but neither of us ever considered a Commodore.

When I was a college intern at EDS in 1982, I had access to one of the first IBM PCs. It was DOS only, of course. Before that PC, everything was mainframes and IBM terminals for big businesses. Later, when an employee of EDS, I had access to the First Macintosh. The first computer I bought for myself was a Mac, because of that experience.

Years later, I worked for an accounting software company, in their in-house ad agency. The whole company used PCs, except for our department, which used Macs. Macs were, and still are THE choice for professional designers, illustrators and photographers. If you are involved in graphic design, and don't know Macs, good luck getting a job. Macs and Adobe creative software.

I've met some IT guys who hate Macs, and others who love them. A few of them work on PCs at work, but have Macs at home.

My sister has a 20-inch iMac, a few iPads, an iPhone, and my dad's MacBook Pro that she uses to manage my mom's financial matters. My mom has a 27 inch iMac, but she can't use it, anymore.

One of the reasons that I use all Apple products is that whatever I do on one device, is shared with the others. All my emails, incoming and outgoing, show up on every device. My Safari browser bookmarks are shared on every device, as well as history. I can watch half of a YouTube video on my MacBook Pro, close it down, move to my iMac, and resume the video where I left off. If I chose to activate this feature, I can access my iMac desktop from my MacBook Pro, and operate my iMac as if it is right in front of me, from anywhere with internet access. If I were to mix in other brands of devices, I'd lose some of those capabilities. Of course, you have to take some serious security measures if you choose to do that.

I sometimes joke about "Windoze" PCs with people, but I honestly don't care what they prefer to use. They're happy, I'm happy, everyone's happy. :D

CD
 
It's true, when asked what I drive I do say a van... or a broom, depending. But people don't usually ask women what they drive, although they almost always came beetling over to ask me what year that Corvette was as I was getting in.
I do say to the kids go get in my van or the e-car or Dad's van, simply because we have 3 car's in the driveway.
But if we are out somewhere I will say to the kids "Go get in the car."
Only in the last 10 years or so have I been able to remember my age without doing the math. Before that when asked I would just tell them I was born in '44 - so if you really want to know, go figure it out yourself.
 
All three.
Before I retired on April 1st, I spent a lot of time sitting at my desk, so that was the predominant means for me. Since then, I probably use my tablet more, just because it's more portable, but I still use all 3.
 
All three, but at different times.

I use my "desktop", an Acer chromebook when I plan on doing a lot of typing. I've been a typist all of my life and just can't figure out how to text the two-thumb way that my kids seem to be so proficient at!

I'll use my Samsung tablet when we travel, since I stopped using my "laptop" on trips unless we're gone for an extended trip - which pretty much hasn't happened since Ian wiped out our timeshare on Fort Myers Beach back in 9-22.

I'll use my Samsung phone for lurking, or quick comments.

All three of these devices are Android. Therefore, no matter which device I pick up, it "remembers" where I was last time I used one. Save a recipe on my phone, open the laptop when I go to cook it since the screen is bigger. Well, I bought a cheap little easel for my tablet, so that is usually my "cookbook" now when I cooking something I have on the web.
 
caseydog said:
My dad had a TRS80 from Radio Shack, followed by an Apple 2C, then a Macintosh, like mine. I don't know why, but neither of us ever considered a Commodore.

When I was a college intern at EDS in 1982, I had access to one of the first IBM PCs. It was DOS only, of course. Before that PC, everything was mainframes and IBM terminals for big businesses. Later, when an employee of EDS, I had access to the First Macintosh. The first computer I bought for myself was a Mac, because of that experience.

Years later, I worked for an accounting software company, in their in-house ad agency. The whole company used PCs, except for our department, which used Macs. Macs were, and still are THE choice for professional designers, illustrators and photographers. If you are involved in graphic design, and don't know Macs, good luck getting a job. Macs and Adobe creative software.

I've met some IT guys who hate Macs, and others who love them. A few of them work on PCs at work, but have Macs at home.

My sister has a 20-inch iMac, a few iPads, an iPhone, and my dad's MacBook Pro that she uses to manage my mom's financial matters. My mom has a 27 inch iMac, but she can't use it, anymore.

One of the reasons that I use all Apple products is that whatever I do on one device, is shared with the others. All my emails, incoming and outgoing, show up on every device. My Safari browser bookmarks are shared on every device, as well as history. I can watch half of a YouTube video on my MacBook Pro, close it down, move to my iMac, and resume the video where I left off. If I chose to activate this feature, I can access my iMac desktop from my MacBook Pro, and operate my iMac as if it is right in front of me, from anywhere with internet access. If I were to mix in other brands of devices, I'd lose some of those capabilities. Of course, you have to take some serious security measures if you choose to do that.

I sometimes joke about "Windoze" PCs with people, but I honestly don't care what they prefer to use. They're happy, I'm happy, everyone's happy. :D

CD
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Our first family computer was an Atari 800 in the first half of the 1980s. I remember Himself telling me that it was supposed to be delivered on "Friday". I had our bank account check all written out and ready. When the delivery guy showed up at our door, he told me he could accept only a certified check or cash. Rut-roh. I told him how my husband was looking forward to setting it up over the weekend and asked what I could to to make sure I had it in hand. He said that he would be swinging around to make deliveries at K-Mart around 2:30 that afternoon. If I wanted to meet him there, I could bring a bank check or cash and get the thing. Yeah, the kids and I rendezvoused with the guy just so Himself had his first home computer that weekend. :whistling

Our second computer was a rebuild of whatever castoff Himself brought home from work. So was the third. Maybe even a fourth. BUT when we were moving, one of my conditions was that we got a brand-new, up-to-date computer so that I could easily keep in touch with the kids and friends. Since he built it himself from components, I guess it was a no-name brand. Or a multi-name brand. But it was new and fast and I was happy - or as happy as I could be 600 miles from the kids.
 
caseydog said:
Rant?

It has been part of Apple culture since the first Macintosh (which I had). Back in the 1980s, there were PCs, and there were Macs. As for phones, the iPhone was a game changer. Before it, "smartphones" were only purchased by geeks and big companies for business uses. The Apple iPhone was the first really successful consumer smartphone. At that time, the word iPhone was to smartphones like the word Kleenex is to tissues. When other smartphones first came out, I often heard people call them iPhones, or "my Samsung iPhone."

Something else that has been around since the eighties is people who don't use Apple products griping about them, and the people who do use them. :unsure:

BTW, I wear Wranglers, not jeans (common in Texas), and I drive an Audi Q5, not a mid-size crossover. I wouldn't want someone to get confused and think I drive a BMW. :ohmy: :ROFLMAO:

CD
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Hey, I'm no geek and I had a "smartphone" around 2004-5. My first phone, in 1999, was a "candy bar" style. Second was a Motorola Razr. :unsure: Apparently, what's old is new again. Anyway, Himself needed to get a smartphone for work as well as personal use. The company subsidized any plans through Verizon, which is the carrier we were on at the time. Verizon was running a BOGO deal, so he suggested that I get a new phone, too. When he asked which model I wanted, I told him I would just get the same one he was getting. I figured since he had to learn the phone's functions, I could just ask him anytime I had a question. He pointed out that I probably wouldn't want all of those features that the phone had though (and nearly 2 decades later I don't know what they all were, but I do know that internet capability was one of them). I asked if it still made phone calls. He laughed and said "of course". So I said that even if I didn't use all of the features, my "free" phone wouldn't cost more than a cheaper, simpler model. Eventually I did know how everything worked, and I'm still not a "geek". But I can pretty much use (and troubleshoot) any of my devices on my own all these years later.

Well, I'm still challenged at times by our new Smart TV. All I wanna do it turn it on and pick a channel! There are days when I feel like it wants to play "20 questions" with me. :LOL:

And we have never called our cellphones "Samsung iPhones" ever. You need to hang around with smarter geeks. :mrgreen:
 
Cooking Goddess said:
Hey, I'm no geek and I had a "smartphone" around 2004-5. My first phone, in 1999, was a "candy bar" style. Second was a Motorola Razr. :unsure: Apparently, what's old is new again. Anyway, Himself needed to get a smartphone for work as well as personal use. The company subsidized any plans through Verizon, which is the carrier we were on at the time. Verizon was running a BOGO deal, so he suggested that I get a new phone, too. When he asked which model I wanted, I told him I would just get the same one he was getting. I figured since he had to learn the phone's functions, I could just ask him anytime I had a question. He pointed out that I probably wouldn't want all of those features that the phone had though (and nearly 2 decades later I don't know what they all were, but I do know that internet capability was one of them). I asked if it still made phone calls. He laughed and said "of course". So I said that even if I didn't use all of the features, my "free" phone wouldn't cost more than a cheaper, simpler model. Eventually I did know how everything worked, and I'm still not a "geek". But I can pretty much use (and troubleshoot) any of my devices on my own all these years later.

Well, I'm still challenged at times by our new Smart TV. All I wanna do it turn it on and pick a channel! There are days when I feel like it wants to play "20 questions" with me. :LOL:

And we have never called our cellphones "Samsung iPhones" ever. You need to hang around with smarter geeks. :mrgreen:
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My dad had a mobile phone in his company car in 1979. It was huge, and had a cord -- picture Sonny Crocket in his Ferrari -- but older, with a conservative haircut, a business suit and a beige Chevy Malibu. :cool:

CD
 
caseydog said:
My dad had a mobile phone in his company car in 1979. It was huge, and had a cord -- picture Sonny Crocket in his Ferrari -- but older, with a conservative haircut, a business suit and a beige Chevy Malibu. :cool:

CD
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Cool Dude!

SO had an early portable cell phone. It came n a shoulder bag with a big battery.
 
Andy M. said:
Cool Dude!

SO had an early portable cell phone. It came n a shoulder bag with a big battery.
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Yeah, my dad's was a bag phone, but I think it could also be mounted in the car??? I never got to use it, or that car. It belonged to Gulf Oil Company. Strictly hands off for anyone but my dad.

CD
 
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