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

[Richard Chirgwin]

Brenda,

I was, without doubt, lucky beyond belief that in 1982 (I think), OTC 
decided that all its trainees would be using computers, therefore we 
would all learn to type. For three solid weeks.

RC

On 15/08/11 10:39 AM, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> On 15/08/11 09:56, jim birch wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> 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
>
>