[LINK] Affordable Internet in Australia for low-income families ? Never happen...

[Brenda Aynsley]

On 15/08/11 09:56, jim birch wrote:

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> My father never owned or used a pc despite being a highly technical person,
> for example, he developed the Australian weather radar network working at
> the BOM.  He would have retired about the time when pcs surged onto the
> desktop, so his staff may have had them but he never did.  I never worked
> out exactly why he never took it up but I guess he was happy enough and busy
> with other activities.  If things had taken a different twist he could
> easily have been writing Wikipedia articles.

It's always been my contention that what kept older men away from 
computers was that typing at a keyboard was 'women's work', the typing 
pool never had men working in it, only women, and computers were seen as 
just smarter typewriters.

Today, this is no longer the case, no more typing pools and no 
predominance of women slaving over the keyboards of the world, everyone 
does that now :)

cheers
brenda


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