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Story time. In college 40+ years ago my housemate wanted to impress this girl by inviting her to write an important paper of hers with a looming deadline on his
by gradschool 3mo ago
Story time. In college 40+ years ago my housemate wanted to impress
this girl by inviting her to write an important paper of hers with a
looming deadline on his computer with WordStar instead of her usual
methodology involving a typewriter. She was using WordStar comfortably
in less than five minutes but being completely new to it was unaware
of the practice of periodically saving one's work. Around three in the
morning it crashed and took all of her work with it. I was told she
burst into tears and had left when I woke up the next morning to find
my housemate busily trying to retype it from her handwritten notes.
- broken-kebab 3mo agoThe housemate did poor job introducing to computer work. "Thou shall save your work often" was the first rule in those glorious times.
- Bluecobra 3mo agoIndeed. In high school we had a Mac (Performa?) lab running System 7 in the art department. The whole system would crash so constantly that I would manually save my work almost after every change. Really stunk when Netscape Navigator 3 crashed, because you couldn’t save your work there.