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Re: [Killietalk]No Computer
I think this all points to "want of use".
I don't know many fish keepers who know what a molar concentration
means, if they have a strong enough want or maybe a need for that
concept & calculation, they find a way to the understanding or the
use of a computer.
It is not just this list or organization, all the world is
joining into this information spread. And it has very little to do
with age. Al is 61, I am 60, Duane is 80, Lee is 76, even George is
66 - are there any kids under 40 out there?
If the hobbyist really wants to get ALL the information,
computers are available as well as e-mail & www access. It can even
be free if the want or need is strong enough. There is always someone
around who wants to prove how smart they are and show us older folks
the ways of the *Brave New World* . I have to go along with the
majority of this list who have spoken.
Locally I have helped the Missouri Aquarium Society who is struggling
with the same kind of problem. My Cardigan Welsh Corgi club jumped in
and did it with PDF's of their newsletter. If you want a hard copy of
this newsletter, you print one yourself. I don't think it will take
long before the newsletter for the Aquarium Society will be available
online to the majority of their members and not mailed at all or only
mailed to a few. Sending the Corgi newsletter to Wales cost a
fortune, sending the Darter to Germany and Australia along with the
South American fish keepers would break MASI's budget.
When SLAKA held the Convention here with the Indy group back in 1997,
I passed out a questionnaire to get opinions about the use of the
internet when it was in its infancy. Over 50% of the members who were
there were not owners of computers much less internet users. But, the
vast majority of those members present advocated electronic
availability of the BNL and many wanted the F&E available also. I had
a very vocal minority who did not want me to take this survey and I
was forbidden by the BOT to publish the results.
Here we are 5 years later and talking about the same thing but now
using *that* electronic communication to do so. Evolution will
continue to pull us along despite our willingness to lag behind.
We will develop the need and the way if the want is there, and that
probably has nothing to do with a person's age . . .
incandescent light vs fluorescent, metal frames and tar vs silicone
sealer, plastic vinyl tubing vs silicone tubing, we even shift the
wavelength of our fluorescent lighting now . . . just *wanted*
something better.
Charles H
George & Melanie <caraway at erienet_net> wrote:
Sorry guys I have to disagree with you. I am going on 66 and I also
am using the computer quit a bit. However everyone is not the same.
For some of us we have been able to adapt to changes and keep up but
believe me there are others in our age group who have not. You may
know someone who may fit in this category, I am sure you will not
find this situation with the younger generation. So to say age has
nothing to do with it means you guys are wearing blinders.
George
LeeH920226 at aol_com wrote:
In a message dated 8/30/03 9:32:23 PM, killiman at iquest_net writes:
<<
I will be 61 next month. Duane Wake is 80 something and he is on line. Age
ain"t got nothing to do with it. Even Karl with a K has one and he is older
than dirt. >>
I am over 75 and before I retired 6 years ago I was the computer
consultant at work (DuPont) for those chemists who wanted to do
chemical computations on a computer. I developed programs for
calculating molar contributions to physical properties of addition
and condensation polymers. I was also editor of a computer
newsletter at work. I taught many PhDs half my age how to use those
programs.
Age has nothing to do with it.
Lee Harper
Media, PA
USA
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