My nephew just bought my dad a kindle fire... I don't think he's ever push 2 computer keys in his life. Hopefully it works out well. It will keep my sister busy helping him....
Father-in-law cursed in several languages when he got a nook. But now he is elctronic book hooked. Sorry if that sounds like a cheesy jingle.
The most unwanted present I ever gave my father was a simple hand-held calculator. He never touched it again. He refused to even consider using it to do basic math. He was very good at doing basic math. Similarly, I never saw him touch a typewriter. Machines like that were for other people, not him.
My Dad's First Electronics Was An HP 25
I bought an originak HP 35 while in 1972 when I was in college at $395. A few years later my brother and I bought my dad an HP 25 at about $250. We spent some time writing down the keystrokes to convert degree/minutes/seconds to degress.0000 as well as how to figure latitudes and departures in one entry. When that wore out I bought him an HP 11 for $50. That had the dd.mmss conversion built in. I got that back when he passed on and still use it every day along with the HP 11 I bought new in 1986.
Dads can adapt fast.
Paul in PA
My Dad's First Electronics Was An HP 25
> Dads can adapt fast.
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:good:
Mine started work for Burroughs right out of high school repairing typewriters and cash registers. By the time he retired he was repairing Burroughs Computers (they were number 3 at one time behind IBM) systems at banks and state offices. Grew up on a farm and never had a day in college. Living example of adapting to the fast advancements in technology.
My Dad's First Electronics Was An HP 25
> Dads can adapt fast.
Some were early adapters.
In the mid 1960's my dad had to travel from his office at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in New Mexico to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (later named the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory) just to use their CDC6600
