Modern Technology And I Do Not Get On...

[Jackdaw33]

To cut a long story short, earlier this year I stood on my mouse, which I bought for 99p 6 years ago and stood me in good stead. Needless to say it was Donald and I had to resort to the touchpad, which I hated. Anyway on Thursday I decided to invest in a wireless mouse. It has taken me two days to get it operative. Firstly, I was not told that it needed batteries (not supplied). After three hours I finally managed to wrench the wretched thing out of the stiff plastic wrapping. What few instructions there were said I needed an AA battery. That was a no-no as even I could see that the hole wan't big enough. On closer inspection I realised that it needed two AAA batteries, which I purchased this afternoon. Having managed to insert them with some difficulty, hallelujah, it works... or not. It has an on/off switch underneath and also a mind of its own. I switch it on, and if I don't touch it for about 10 minutes it switches itself off. Pity you can't get computers anymore which run off the gas!

[1ozzy]

It goes to sleep after 10 mins to conserve energy, lazy mouse, try feeding it a bit more.

[Jackdaw33]

I'll try feeding it to the cat!

[wolf63]

I bought a wireless mouse as I thought that it was the way forward. I knew that cats chased mice but not that they enjoyed swatting the thing with the red light off the desk. I gave up.

I have a mouse with a lead on my laptop and I have disabled the touchpad because Princess Merlin enjoyed stomping that far too much.

[Prudie]

I probably spend 11 hours a day on a laptop but i couldn't use a touchpad to save my life. I use remote mice - they don't live long :-(

[Jackdaw33]

I just can't believe the hassle I've had to get the damned thing working!

[1ozzy]

I rather like the pen holder my laptop has. You push a little button on the side and a tray pops out a bit, perfect! If you pull the tray a bit further it doubles as a coffee cup holder, great bit of engineering.

[Prudie]

Mine has a handy slot where I can keep change for parking or a pound for a supermarket trolley. Very thoughtful.

[Jackdaw33]

I thought mine had a coffee cup holder. Turns out it's a CD drive.

[Buenchico]

I'm still struggling with the idea that, in order to turn a computer OFF, you have to click a button labelled START !

[hc4361]

I still try to park the hard drive before I turn it off

[hc4361]

And don't mention the time I bought a pair of kitchen scissors and had to take them back because the packaging had to be cut open with scissors.

[1ozzy]

That would have annoyed me no end Hc, they should have been supplied with a small pair for opening purposes.

[Buenchico]

My first computer didn't have a hard drive, Hc! (Atari ST).

Before that, I'd had to learn to program computers without a computer! (I had to encode programs onto punch cards, which were then posted to the polytechnic so that, about a week later, I could get a letter telling me that the program couldn't be run as I'd made a typing error!)

[Jackdaw33]

Been there hc, T-shirt and all.

[1ozzy]

I started with an Atari ST, thought it was great. Played lots of Pac Man.

[Buenchico]

I spent about £200 on my Atari ST and accessories (such as a joystick, which I never used) in Selfridges.

However, apart from games, there was very little ready-built software for it, so I had to fork out another £250 for a DTP program (Pagestream). It came on about a dozen floppies. Interestingly though, there was very little it couldn't do that Quark Xpress can currently do (and which requires a minimum of 2Gb disc space!)

[DaisyNonna]

I share your pain
Have a new Acer PC
Windows 10
Was happily working on Windows 7 before
Complete nightmare, feel so inadequate
Used to enjoy playing Scrabble via Facebook, now takes a hit and miss to get to the site
Not a mind reader (if computers can be said to have one)