So I recently discovered that people have actually continued to make computers after 1998, when I got mine, and that mine was no longer compatible with lots and lots of stuff. Well, make that incompatible with life in every possible way.
Oddly enough I have two brothers who work with computers. One of them decided to rebuild something for me, and don't ask me to describe or name anything having to do with what he did. It involved stuff, computer stuff. That's all I know. It also involved laughing at the amount of memory on my noble machine, something unkind about his phone having more space. Anyway, it happened, things were moved to a newer computer and nothing important has vanished.
The main change (aside from no longer being able to clean the house while waiting for my email to open in the morning) is that we no longer have all the official Microsoft doodads. I'm curious whether anyone would like to weigh in with an opinion on OpenOffice. It seems fine so far but I suck at handling change and I periodically envision myself finding that it only saves every third page of documents on Tuesdays or something else equally devestating. Any flukes worth knowing about or is it basically the same as Word (the 1998 version)?
Oddly enough I have two brothers who work with computers. One of them decided to rebuild something for me, and don't ask me to describe or name anything having to do with what he did. It involved stuff, computer stuff. That's all I know. It also involved laughing at the amount of memory on my noble machine, something unkind about his phone having more space. Anyway, it happened, things were moved to a newer computer and nothing important has vanished.
The main change (aside from no longer being able to clean the house while waiting for my email to open in the morning) is that we no longer have all the official Microsoft doodads. I'm curious whether anyone would like to weigh in with an opinion on OpenOffice. It seems fine so far but I suck at handling change and I periodically envision myself finding that it only saves every third page of documents on Tuesdays or something else equally devestating. Any flukes worth knowing about or is it basically the same as Word (the 1998 version)?