Category Archives: technology
The M4 Pro
This week I set up the twelfth desktop personal computer for my use at home over the past 42 years. A new machine typically offers improvements in processing power, RAM, and storage size, and that is certainly true for my … Continue reading
SKyline-1, SUnset-8, and WIndsor-2
In my previous post, I outlined the history of phone numbers in Bartlesville, which became my home in 1989. This post looks at my personal telephone memories from the late 1960s to present. Bell Telephone, including the Southwestern Bell subsidiary … Continue reading
FEderal-6 and EDison-3
What do the song PEnnsylvania 6-5000, the book BUtterfield 8, and the movie Dial M for Murder have in common? All of their titles refer to telephone exchanges. Bartlesville only used exchange names in its phone numbers for about a … Continue reading
How to Make Them Pay?
How often do you still use cash? Do you still write some checks? Did you notice credit cards are no longer issued with raised numbers for imprinters? Do you even know what an imprinter is? Do you or should you … Continue reading
EOL
So what does EOL mean to you? For me, EOL first means End of Line. That is thanks to my interest in computers and the 1982 movie Tron. The computer programs in it would end a conversation thusly: Back then, … Continue reading
Meador Manor 