GloryBells • 
Recall my first introduction to the "computer age" with a required course in college Fortran program and IBM punch cards. computers were in a large temperature controlled room with large spools all over the place and staff producing punch cards, engineer drawing were created on drawing boards with paper and lead pencils with eracers, the first cell phones were as big as a loaf of bread carried around on a suitable shoulder bag _Mitsubishi was of of the first to come out with one I worked for them in Houston TX, was issued a IBM Think Pad Laptop $4900 each our cost I was 50 y.o. then - had to learn it pronto as it was sink or swim time - made the grade. Oh you could lock thos IMBs up. Our first flat screen a 37" Visio was $747.00 bought at K-Mart cheaper than at Walmart 20 + years ago. It still working fine. Yep change is good. Guess next year or so this 80 y.o. will need to buy a newer PC in Oct. as Microsoft 10 will no longer be supported in October 2025 for no charge **bleep** I say..Have to learn something new again and create new cuss words
Back in the early ‘70’s, they were having this family day thing out at the space center. My dad worked for NASA, and he showed me this room with these computers the size of refrigerators and these enormous tape reels that had the data. When I worked a particular job from 1988 to 1993, the floppy disks for the computer there were 7 inches.
Now? I’m writing this on a small iPad. For better or for worse, times do change. Everywhere.
