[TUHS] Re: "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?

At the risk of going off-topic (Linux and 90's/00's) I'll play too: 1)remembering to set ftp type to binary (that one bit me more than once, at least) 2)learning what a "winmodem" is and avoiding it like the plague! 3)Splitting a partition with FIPS 4)Writing an image to floppy 5)doing anything at all with a floppy, come to think of it 6)Setting jumpers on sound cards and drives 7)learning how to configure XFree86 so that it doesn't blow out your monitor! (never happened to me, but I remember the scary warnings about it: https://www.xfree86.org/4.0.3/chips7.html ) 8)configuring PPP internet On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 5:14 AM steve jenkin &lt;sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au&gt; wrote: What are the 1970’s & 1980’s Computing / IT skills “our grandkids won’t have”? Whistling into a telephone while the modem is attached, because your keyboard has a stuck key          - something I absolutely don’t miss. Having a computer in a grimy wharehouse with 400 days of uptime & wondering how a reboot might go? steve j ========= 9 Skills Our Grandkids Will Never Have         <https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/06/9-skills-our-grandkids-will-never-have/>         1: Using record players, audio cassettes, and VCRs         2: Using analog phones                   [ or an Analog Clock ]         3. Writing letters by hand and mailing them         4. Reading and writing in cursive         5. Using manual research methods           [ this is a Genealogy site ]         6. Preparing food the old-fashioned way         7. Creating and mending clothing         8. Building furniture from scratch         9. Speaking the languages of their ancestors -- Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin