Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] The most severe disadvantage of my iPad!

Gee, you're even older than I, Jim. My first computer was an Apple II.

Your fight with the iPad may be largely a coordination thing. Have you tried other tablets? A friend who loves Apple nevertheless was unable to use her iPad. She has diabetes and the screen was too sensitive. She uses, I think, a Kindle Fire.

On Jul 4, 2014, at 10:39 AM, "jimpurcell2001@yahoo.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

What makes it so maddening is that I've spent years, maybe decades getting used to PCs. I finally gave up on Linux, and I gave my Mac Pro, giant of a thing, to my son.
I've been computing since the MS Dos days, and technically before that. My first computer was a little single board thing based on the RCA Cosmac chip. I also had a Motorola D2 kit which used the Motorola 6800 series chip. [Funny thing about Motorola, that name come from their first product, a car radio. ALots of 'ola' products then. Victor-Ola [record player. Remember the symbol,
I dog looking at the horn of the player, the caption, 'His Masters voice']

I had a funny little 8080 based computer called the 'Interact'. It had 16 k of ram, more than three time what my Vic 20 had. I did not have built in BASIC, which instead loaded from a cassette.
So people create all sorts of programs that ran from cassette including an 8080 assembly program.
I added ram to the Interact bringing it up to 65k.

Jim