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Show 10 COMMENTS July 26, 1991 Hilltop Times Pixel bytes mouse, escapes via Windows Right. At the heart of my staAir Force Nes Service tion is this machine which, he says, is a 356, complete with re 'ou sure you M H CPU hooked to a LAN want t0 (Juit?" from a file server. that ivVThis is just one of My operates is the latest verthe many cryptic messages that which sion, a flash before my eyes each day as connects well with the LAN but I am challenged by the brazen is not compatible with an Apple d beast on my desk. or Mac. I normally work in the Actually, it's not even a desk; F drive, but can switch easily to today, it's called a work station. the A or B drives, which are I sat at a desk for years and alor to the C drive I where rests my communications ways thought was working. Now I need a station. Obviously, protocols and an assortment of I am among those who some other innovative programs of refer to as computer illiterates. which I know little or nothing. It's not that we're dumb, and it I was impressed, because he doesn't matter that the work told me this 386 was much or that station is faster than my old 286, and now the computer looks like a televiI've got a color monitor. The sion with a typewriter attached, color monitor I can handle, or or that I thought I was friends thought I could. I turned the with the systems operator, who machine on the first time and considers illiterates like myself the color monitor was black and the bane of his existence. white, not even green on green No, that doesn't matter. What like my old 286 dinosaur. It took does matter is that I, like many an expert from the small comothers who grew up with Under- puter haven, or was it heaven, to wood or Royal manuals, are left come down and remind the 386 reeling in a plethora of abbrevia- that it was color, and suddenly it was color. Rainbows ever tions, aliases and hot keys that would stump Einstein's slide since, although the expert pointrule. Remember slide rules? ed out that the new 486s on ordThe systems operator, the nut er were much faster. surrounded by a dozen machines "How fast can one get?" I resembling my one, tells me I'm asked. I had opened Pandora's box. Computer literates love to lucky, I've got the new 386. by SMSgt. Charlie Bowden r r 40-me-g MS-DO- S one-eye- high-densit- user-friendl- y, y, situations, use the tried and true. Pull rank. I outranked the expert, so I sought to use it to my advantage. "When can I trade in this 386 talk computers and out came a deluge of terms I'd never heard. Of course, one doesn't want to appear ignorant in these things so I nodded knowingly as the expert rattled on about the LAN, file servers, processors, RAM, ROM, parallel ports and for one of those new 486 numbers?" I asked. "Oh, you probably won't get one," he answered. "Why not?" said I, sounding suitably offended. Heading out, he said with a larger than necessary smile, "You don't need it, you don't even have Windows or a mouse." A mouse? Who would want a computer that had a mouse in it? Editor's note: Bowden is chief, peripherals. Wanting to put up at least the facade of understanding, but not knowing exactly how, I told the expert from SC that I really liked the pixels on the 386, that you could really see the baby's speed with the pixels. But the game was up. I couldn't tell the pixel from the tooth fairy and the expert knew it, and knew that I knew he knew. No matter. In these types of news products branch. OGDEN BENNETT'S PAINT & GLASS DcVocKo InteriorExterior Latex Semi-Glos- s now reg. $18.99 Devoe Exterior Latex Flat Linseed Oil 5 gallon bucket jb 'i V'y Vl! SOCOO now JO reg. $55 vf J' $1 A49 now 1 V reg. $19.50 V, $Q98 Thinner $089 a. 11 xl tt h Ik! 1930 Wall Ave. Mon.-Fri- t'. ' "far. UK? II rv.Wi f Jillr fi .lUm IIIIUJA . 1 UMliLM m&sm m 1 1 1 J 1 1 .T J ii rv rJTTTTVV rH7TT77A 1 1 1 UMIM! wM) mm& mITTT n ffTTmi I WWm m m mm m m iiHi mm siii!jiii ..:m 'limn! iiiiiiii mm iif Jill! iif 1 0; 621-888- 1 Sat. Start Building or the Future s I , . Ogden ras julv 26, at a theatre mm you. U.S. Saving Bonds |