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effinwayshegoes t1_j96wssh wrote

I respect your willingness to learn technology given you’re an older gentleman. I know some people your age who program but I also know many your age who just walk around barely knowing how to use their phones/computer etc.

There’s so much potential on the devices. It’s like a magic little pocket pool that can do and tell you whatever you want. I’m sure from the time you were a kid until now has been quite exciting.

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Adult_InThe_Room OP t1_j989r6y wrote

Now you make me feel ancient! LMAO When I was a child, Telephone service was party line! I had an Aunt & Uncle who lived in the country and the party lines were worse, in that, in addition to the entire neighborhood knew your business. Each person on my Uncles party line had their own number of rings! You had to listen to the rings code to figure out if it was a call for you or your neighbor. There were no calculators and one person my parents knew in Michigan had an outdoor toilet shed. I was always curious and my first computer was an Atari 16K, not even floppy drive, but cassette tape. , then I went to Commodore 64k portable! My grandmother was born in 1899! Holy Crap! I am old! LOL But yeah, I'm pumped, can't wit to learn a new thing! I coming off a pixel 6a running GrapheneOS, an ultra secure and privacy OS for android, so coming over to iPhone is going 180 degrees, Did you ever run umbutu mobile, quite a sweet phone OS. I've also install LineageOS on Androids.

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effinwayshegoes t1_j9d5aj7 wrote

Sir. That means you had to unlock the boot loader and load custom firmware. That’s amazing! Good on you getting the Atari, I bet that early access to a more complex user interface gave you the ability from then on to understand future systems.

That’s incredible about the phone system, it’s still crazy to me to think of phone switching stations with the women in there, transferring calls. Very interesting.

I work on a boat so I’m used to buckets as my bathroom haha I would have no problems with an old out house!

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Wellcraft19 t1_j9985xz wrote

68 is NOT old. Much of the technology you use today was developed by individuals of a greater age than this distinguished gentleman.

I always recommend to dig into the Apple Support pages. Tons upon tons of good information. And important to get the basics, as iPhones do operate a bit differently. iCloud Photos as one stellar example.

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effinwayshegoes t1_j9d5msk wrote

Wasn’t trying to call anyone old.

And what a great point! Shoot, imagine all the individuals who developed Fortran

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