Windows 10 General Chat

My first computer was an 1986 Sony with the floppy disks. The screen was black and the lettering florescent green Not much use by today's standards as all you could do was write letters and do simple spreadsheets.

I saw my first "computer" which was actually a Hollerith punch card tabulating machine as a child. It occupied the whole of an enormous room!

In 1975 my husband worked for IBM South Africa and helped launch the Systems 32 which was considered "state of the art" technology.

I enjoyed reading your experience.

What we used to think was advanced. For the time it was of course but still.

Barbara - that sounds like the word processor I used at work. I could not make head not tail of the program that was on it but during a day off the office expert installed the English Einstein program. I had such a shock when I switched it on in the morning when I returned as it said "Good Morning [name]" then a list of the things I used it for so all I had to do was click on what I wanted.

The monitor also had florescent green lettering on black and had such a small screen, but some time later it was changed to one with a slighly larger screen which had white lettering on black. Far easier to read.

But I was very late getting a PC [not at work though, I was retired by then] which Effie built for me. He always said it was 2004 but I am sure it was 2005. He sort of told me how to use it and switch it off properly, but I had to ask him how to switch the thing on!

Mine was DOSS too. Then the external modem came and what a pain that was. At that time, we couldn't log on all day like we do now because we had to wait until after 6 pm for cheap rate connection and even then the 'phone bill rocketed so had to be careful how long we used it.

I'll stick with the often frustrating Microsoft and all of the wireless options

I have been playing around with the tiles, moving some, deleting some from the main lot, adding others - still trying to work out what other tiles do, but it is definitely easier than trying to find things from the Start button on W7.

The only think I have against W10 is that even though I put my PC into "Sleep" mode, I have to put in my Microsoft password each morning. It then opens up to where I left off, but I am used to it opening up automatically when I move the mouse.

As I have put an almost defunct email address as my Microsoft one, having first changed the password, it is highly unlikely anyone would ever still have it, therefore it is probably safer to have to put it each morning in order to open my PC.

First computer Atari 800 with the cassette tapes.

I was just thinking - it took me what seemed to be ages to go from a sit-up-and-beg manual typewriter to the wonders of the golfball electric typewriter... and then an electronic one...

...but one thing is for sure and that is that I will never be able to cope with a "smart" phone, even if I wanted one!

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LOL have one and only use it to make calls.

I got one & have to get my 5 year old great nephew & 6 year old neighbours son to show me how to use it, like how to send emails & post photos straight to Facebook.

This W10 is convinced that it knows everything. I have a dual language keyboard although the English letters show as main, the Ivrit ones almost invisible. No problem as I cannot type in Ivrit. And my keyboard is English [US] which means it shows $ and not £ blah blah.

But I just went to type something in quotes "..." and it came out as @...@ - thanks but no thanks. Clicked on ENG on the bottom whatever line and it offered me English English keyboard or English US keyboard.

I have never had an English English choice because all keyboards here are dual language, US English and Ivrit, and am so used to what I have, but now it looks like I could, if I wished, changed my keyboard to use English English and not US English. Confused? You bet I am! I prefer to use what I am used to but how come W10 has decided that I might prefer English English?

I am not arguing with it - just clicked on what I am used to, but how come it thought I might want to change, and how come it could change my keyboard?

Maybe next it will ask me if I want to change to Chinese...

I have Windows 8 and down in the right hand corner where it gives the time and date it gives the option of either a US or UK keyboard. Every time I open the computer it defaults to a US keyboard and if I don't alter it, like you're finding quotes come out as @ ... @ instead of " ..."!

I did once have a computer at work which every now and again would default to French which was very annoying. The worst thing though was it would insist I corrected any words that were similar to English such as "forest" into the French way of spelling .... most odd!

I find that I almost can't live without one at this point.

The only problem I have is getting my speech program to understand what I am saying so it puts the correct word down.
Like six instead of sex & ship instead of sick, have to use keyboard to change letters all the time

@Pork1epe1 - the thing is that you cannot get UK keyboards here, only US/Ivrit ones, although I have never used Ivrit. And there was never a ENG wotsit on W7. So I have always had "..." as marked on the keys, with the @ on Shift of the 2.

So to all of a sudden find things the wrong way round because W10 decided I wanted an UK keyboard... I mean this is getting creepy. How does Microsoft know that I am an English English speaker/typist and not a US English speaker/typist?

It is not important - it is like I only have a $ key but if I want the £ sign I just just the Alt number for it.