Encouragement Thread - If you need support let’s help

[HockeyDad]

Just now, Jurassic Lancer said:

I am encouraged by this:
 

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Spring break partier apologizes after viral 'if I get corona, I get corona' comment

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/03/24/spring-break-party-florida-apologizes-coronavirus-comments/2906379001/

I’m sorry I got caught. 

[Jurassic Lancer]

Just now, HockeyDad said:

I’m sorry I got caught. 

Or his parents dope slapped him when he got home.

[Weaklefthand4ever]

22 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

Some months ago I helped a young relative deal with something they had never seen before - a DOS prompt

C:\>

C:\DOS>

C:\DOS\Run>

Run DOS Run

Ye' old DOS prompt lol. I remember first having to "learn" QDOS and then DOS once it was streamlined. 

We also used to take all of our "computers" down to the municipal airport conference room and plug our 300 baud modems in and chat back and forth across the room. Ahhh bbs'. It was the only place that had multiple phone lines in one room. Now that I think about it, we pioneered the dumb that is text messaging people who are 30 feet away from you. WE started the dumb!! 

Oh and I used to walk from All Saints Academy over to the computer lab at University of Tennessee Chattanooga so I could play Star Trek on their SUN Spark 1. Then I would home and play Mystery House on the Apple. 

[garfield]

15 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:

DE considered liquor stores essential 

Oh yea?  Ohio considers liquor AND pot stores as essential!

Porn and tobacco are on sale (state eliminating sales tax).

We have all of the sins covered in Ohio.

 

[garfield]

9 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:

There's a park near here where every March they celebrate the return of the buzzards.

Hinkley!

[garfield]

46 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

Some months ago I helped a young relative deal with something they had never seen before - a DOS prompt

C:\>

C:\DOS>

C:\DOS\Run>

Run DOS Run

I think I have a Fortran program card with these commands punched out.

[JimF-LowBari]

17 minutes ago, Jurassic Lancer said:

Or his parents dope slapped him when he got home.

Was thinking he still has another week in  a tent in the backyard until quarantine over

[IllianaLancerContra]

6 minutes ago, garfield said:

I think I have a Fortran program card with these commands punched out.

I found a Fortran punch-card program in attic a few years ago & tried to explain it to my kids.  They looked at me like I had grown a third hand out of my forehead 

[Terri Schehr]

23 minutes ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:

Ye' old DOS prompt lol. I remember first having to "learn" QDOS and then DOS once it was streamlined. 

We also used to take all of our "computers" down to the municipal airport conference room and plug our 300 baud modems in and chat back and forth across the room. Ahhh bbs'. It was the only place that had multiple phone lines in one room. Now that I think about it, we pioneered the dumb that is text messaging people who are 30 feet away from you. WE started the dumb!! 

Oh and I used to walk from All Saints Academy over to the computer lab at University of Tennessee Chattanooga so I could play Star Trek on their SUN Spark 1. Then I would home and play Mystery House on the Apple. 

What’s going on with you two?  Feeling okay? 

[Weaklefthand4ever]

8 minutes ago, Terri Schehr said:

What’s going on with you two?  Feeling okay? 

Feeling well. We're currently waiting on test results which may take another day. She's got some shortness of breath but it's gone away and come back. She has some anxiety issues and is scared to death so that may be contributing (heavily IMHO) but we will feel much better when we get results. The state finally got her logins and I set her up a workstation for when they clear her.