re: #466 Mattand

Thanks. I’ll look into it.

The big problem is my dad is unfortunately in full-blown Old Man/I Hate Everything Different mode. I kept pushing him to get a new machine prior to the Win 8 release, but he wouldn’t budge.

He actually made some noises about going Mac based on his drinking buds using them (forget the fact I’ve 18 relatively incident-free years using and fixing them.) I keep telling him he needs to go try one out, just to make sure he’s fine with it. Not surprisingly, he loses interest ASAP.

If it wasn’t for the fact he touch types, I’d have moved him it an iPad by now.

hehehe. That’s amusing.

My father was massively anti-computer back in the 1980s. Saw them as time wasters compared to using other things at work, etc. etc. And got issued a Mac for home anyways. I took to it while I was home from college, mainly for game playing, but also for some other messing around. (No internet, but you could play with various programs.)

I think he eventually took to it as better software came out, I got a degree in computer science and flogged the usefulness to him, plus my mother got to using it for letter writing/work processing. With email it became an obvious asset since it saved on stamps and such - especially once the technology spread to relatives and others who he wanted to keep in contact with. Plus about that point all his kids were scattering to the four winds as well.

My mother took to it right off. But then again she was a librarian. ;)