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This exercise will be done in class.
This is a very eclectic and informal exercise for you to chart your personal interaction with technological developments. List chronologically some of the technologies you have used related to the computer and the Internet. Be sure to include some of the less technological precursors you used.
When you are done, look over your list. Make some observations on your use of technology. How has it changed? How has it changed you?
As an example, here is my personal technology timeline:
1970 Manual Smith-Corona portable typewriter
1971 Slide Rule
1972 Circular Slide Rule!
1974 Four function (+ - x / ) electronic calculator ($200)
1975 Scientific calculator ($150)
1976 Computer Science: punch cards, Fortran/WatFive, PL/II, first 3D plotting
language (Graphix?), ARPANET, first video terminals
(In
1981, the IBM Personal Computer with MS-DOS was first sold)
1981 Electronic typewriter with interchangeable font wheel and proportional
spacing!
1983 University mainframe computer with basic word processing capability
1986 Kaypro XT Turbo computer $2200 (8Mhz, DOS, 640kRAM, 20Mb HDD, 5.25 FDD) and
Epson 9 pin dot matrix printer $425
1987 Barely "Portable" computer (DOS, 640k, dual HD 5.25 FDD)
1991 Epson Equity LT laptop computer (386SX, DOS/ Win 3.1)
1993 Compudyne desktop (486, DOS/Win for Workgroups)
1994 Canon BJ200e inkjet printer
1995 WinBook notebook (486, Win for Workgroups), first time on Internet: dialup
to AOL, Delphi, Compuserve
1996 Epson 24 pin dot matrix printer, first websites up, Dell Dimension XPS (200
Pentium Pro, Win95)
1997 HP Deskjet 820 inkjet printer
1998 www.CrossMarks.com (check the archive!)
and church website (www.fargohope.org -
check the archive)
started using MS FrontPage
1999 Compaq desktop (233, Win95), DSL at church, "official"
computer/network guy for church (Win NT server with ~25 clients and 10
printers), scanner, 2 home phonelines, PalmIII PDA
2000 Fujitsu notebook (P266, Win98), HP Deskjet 880 inkjet printer, wife gets a
cell phone-I resist getting one; Olympus 1Mp Camera ($550)
2001 Dell Dimension 4100 (800Mhz, WinME), Sony Clie N610X PDA; got a webcam, but
really not too practical to use
2002 Cable modem with wireless home network, Canon i850 printer ($145), HP
Pavilion desktop $325 (1.3 Ghz, WinXP - last computer w/ 3.5 floppy drive)
2003 Olympus C700Z (10x optical; 2Mp)
2004 Sony Clie PEG-N760C; got a GMail account; first USB drive (64Mb)
2005 Dell Inspiron 6000 (PentiumM:1.6GHz, WinXP Pro - for my wife); Dell
Dimension 8400 (P4:3.0 GHz, WinXP Pro - for me!); Dell Axim x51v PDA; Palm
TungstenE2 (for wife); Canon CanoScan8400F; started www.gettysburgpress.com;
started learning Flash
2006 Dell Dimension E521 (X2:3.8 GHz, WinXP Media > Vista - for the kids);
Canon PowerShot A710IS (6x optical; 7.1Mp); using USB drives to transfer
everything
2007 started bibleandtech.blogspot.com