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Technology and Cars
Trying to choose a car now is like trying to choose which electronics store you want to support. Shall we follow the GPS herd or just pick a vehicle with OnStar and hope that it will find us if we are lost and send help with electronic bread crumbs.
I went looking for a car for my senior citizen mother recently. I had a specific car in mind. One I would fit in. I’m a big guy and I wanted to find a fuel efficient car for not a lot of money. I live in a town where most dealerships are represented but all of them are shy on cars.
Here’s what I went through to make a buying decision.
Talking Geek
I have found that a lot of people are bothered by computers, because of all the new terms you have to learn to function around a computer.
Bytes, Interface, Memory, CPU, Megahertz, Resolution, and Nanoseconds, just to name a few!
It can be mind boggling for anyone who is not technically oriented.
Here’s my attempt to make things a bit easier…..
Why do Computers Scare You?
I have been working in and around computers of one type or another since the 1970’s. Back then, our High School brought in one of the first Programmable Calculators. It’s language was not easy to use, but it did allow you to program the process of a whole calculation. The printout was the size of most calculator papers and could take several feet of tape to print out the instructions for the calculation.
My first exposure to what would be called a Personal Computer was the Osbourne 1 in the early 1980’s.I am a Genealogist and some of the people I knew in the hobby had these machines to take with them to libraries and research centers. It was a heavy and awkward machine, but it served the users for entering their notes.