What is the oldest age of person that you have actually SEEN using a computer

OP, I really feel for you.

How dare an "old lady" show her face in public when it's full of wrinkles and crowned by a cap of hair "white as snow." The nerve of a woman of 89 or 90 thinking she has the right to brazenly and openly use a computer at a public library where a younger man of superior quality and delicate sensibilities such as yourself might catch a glimpse of her and find the sight distressingly "shocking and strange."

You are so right to have denigrated this woman by likening her to a dog and condemning her for having an odor you found distasteful, repugnant even. Clearly she should stay home hiding in shame, or be sent to sea on an ice floe.

I hope you sue for the offense and "harm" this awful old bag has caused you. Computing while elderly in public places is truly a scourge of our time.

98. At an assisted living place that my daughter managed. The guy is on it about four hours a day terrorizing fb and Twitter. I'm 83 and have given up on Twitter, too much uniformity and too little creativity. FB I quit because of the political trolls and shallow discourse.

On here because, when the posters are sharp, they are very sharp, and, except for the stunningly stupid small crew of haters, the posts are informed and we'll written.

My Mom age 87. Doesn't use it daily but at least every other day. She was a secretary back in the day so she can type fast as hell. What turned her on to computers was not having to use white-out.

OP has no clue. I know people in their mid 70s doing research on quantum computing. Some of them are wrinkled ladies...

chemprof wrote:

OP has no clue. I know people in their mid 70s doing research on quantum computing. Some of them are wrinkled ladies...

Better yet, K. Ruedenberg is a 99 year old quantum chemist who still wins competitive federal grants against young profs in their 30s and 40s.

My grandma will be 90 on Nov. 3 and she uses a computer, and an Android. She also is able to walk 16-minute miles.

Was anything you wrote true? I guess the part about lions being in zoos is accurate. So I guess just the rest of it was lies? And borderline racist.

Yes. That was a very censored version.

Cameron was my 4th university. Went to 3 others after that. Bringing the grand total to 7. I never had any trouble at my university overseas in Spain or at LIU in Brooklyn which is where my masters is from. Most of the problems were at the 4 Oklahoma colleges.

I am very blessed to be here coaching, and now professing, in SanAntonio. I will never go back to school as a student. I've served my time.

Well said!

Some of us oldies were the ones that were there when the Commodore, Osborne, Kaypro s etc were coming on the scene. I loved the Kaypro 11 with Perfect Writer. I used an early p.c. that I put together from purchased parts, with the old 8" floppies, for work. Maybe created the first computerized I.E.P form for my Special Ed. Class (so far as I knew) using Formtool and a set of "batch files" that reduced frequently used phrases into one or two keystrokes.

Since then physical size has been greatly reduced and storage and capacity hugely increased. But with more moving parts and functions (as in cars) the gates to problems and security risks have opened, and there are more things that can, and do, go wrong.

Kids always think their elders are slow and backward.

Little do they know ?

RunRagged wrote:

Jason Mason wrote:

Most ppl over 65 have never and will never use a computer.

They are afraid of them. It was part of their penetration growing up.

This year, Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee, long credited with inventing the world wide web, will both turn 65.

Anyone who credits Bill Gates with creating the WWW needs to learn how to use Google and read up on the subject.

Damn the comment editor for this site sucks. Sorry for the butchered quoting above.

The last time that I saw my aunt using her computer (investments etc), she was 98; I did not see her in a home setting after that. She lived to be 100 and a few weeks - survived the Holocaust on a fluke (she was Jewish) related to her being a Nation Champion swimmer in Yugoslavia.