IF YOU THINK YOU’RE DUMB WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS, READ THIS AND YOU’LL FEEL BETTER. Take heart, anyone among you who believes he or she is technologically challenged, you “ain’t seen nuthin” yet. This is an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article: 1. Compaq is considering changing the command “Press Any Key” to [...]

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At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.” In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a [...]

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OCR – Optical Character Recognition A technology that can take written words and convert them back into computer-readable form, provided they’re in the right font, using the correct colors sometimes, at the right point size and pitch, dark enough on the paper, and you’re prepared to spend several centuries correcting all the 1′s that came [...]

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