James Oliver’s PC Guide & Tips

This is kinda Jeopardy Style

1. It was a device that at one time had a cord plugged into it like a tail with a roller underneath it. You would move it around on your desk to move your “cursor” around on your “monitor”. Then you’d press buttons on it to execute commands on your computer.

2. It was something plugged into your computer that would display the output from the computer. It was in 2D. They were bulky, but got lighter when the “flat panels” were created. Holographics was only in the movies at the time.

3. It was a device that we would use our fingers to press buttons that allowed alpha-numeric characters to print on a “monitor”. There were also classes you could take to improve your efficiency using this device.

4. Well, back then, no one really cared about trees. They would chop them up into little pieces and press them together and create something called “paper” (just like at the museums). This device would output onto the sheets of “paper” with “ink”. School children even used paper to write out their schoolwork on using archaic devices called “pens”

5. Well, it was the part of a computer that held all the components. It was the size of a transporter engine. At one time, it would take up as much room as a domicile. Apple was the first to engineer something much smaller for their computer systems.

6. For entertainment, people would sit for hours and play these. There were a variety of these. Some as simple as a yellow circle with a mouth eating dots! Some could be played via the internet with people all over the world. You would control a graphic on the “monitor” to do a variety of tasks in a somewhat 3d world!

7. People actually payed for a service that would transfer your voice to someone else. Everyone had their own identification number which when entered, would sound a noise at the other end signaling the other person to activate on their end. The early versions used small wire, and then improved to a now obsolete fiber optic cable.

8. People would use small devices to conduct business and for entertainment. Before the government assigned “Personal Wireless Activity Units” which monitor your Internet activity, people could do almost anything and remain anonymous without government intervention. This was when a computer could be called a “Personal Computer”

9. It was a software application installed on a persons Personal Computer that detected and removed “viruses” which could destroy data, steal information, and render computers useless. There were people with expertise in this arena who actually were paid monetary units to install and use these software packages. This was until Kaspersky led the way to abolishing viruses for good.

10. It was a huge company that dominated the archaic operating systems. It was expensive, and it was costing people millions of dollars in “Identity Theft” and software. The flaws in their operating system eventually led to programming groups banding together to create an operating system called “Linux” which led to what we use now.