Yes, no matter how we sometimes curse them, computers are indeed a miracle to me. One of my first jobs was using a typewriter--no correction key--to type federal grant applications. Six carbon copies with no mistakes. (Not as old as the typewriter at left--at least mine was electric. :)
If you're not of a certain age, you may not have actually used a typewriter and not even know what carbon paper looked like. I don't think my kids have had this experience.
When my office started using the first computers in the early 1980s--with floppy disks and 512K of memory, we were in heaven! We finally had the luxury of correcting mistakes without erasing multiple copies or using white-out. Just fix them on the screen and print out a perfect copy!Of course computers have evolved light years since then, with many hundreds of gigabytes of memory and lightning fast processors and many other technological advances I don't understand. But to me, they are still miracle machines.
Do you remember the first computer you used? What was it?
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