Reply to How to advise an older gen x/boomer lawyer friend on modern job hunting etc

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "How to advise an older gen x/boomer lawyer friend on modern job hunting etc "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do know that boomers are the parents of Gen X?

Boomers were born in the late 1930s through the very early 1960s.

They are in their late 60s to 80s now.

People in their 40s and 50s are not "boomers"[/quote]

I am a Boomer and so is my wife. I still have a teenager at home and still working. My two older kids are barely out of college and in their first apartments. Boomers can be as young as born 1964. I am more tech savy as a boomer than anyone under the age of 60 I know as they dont really know IT. They just know how to push a button.

For fun once I brought my 1989 Laptop to work that still works. People were kinda amazed there were laptops in 1989. I also told them I had a thinkpad in 1990s and a cell home in 1990s. They all think IT was invented in last ten years. I was in a computer lab at school in 1980 doing programing and stuff.

Boomers who dont know IT are full of crap. Even my 83 years old MIL who claims she does not know IT is BS. She had a PC at her job she worked at in 1980s. She started using a computer around 1980. And I was a teller in College. Yes we had dumb terminals, ATMs.

Look Chemical Bank now Chase installed first ATMs in 1969. And I used Chase online banking (needed discs and dial up) in 1990s. The ATM for most was first time using a computer to do a transaction. But that is now 56 years ago.

The first modern automatic teller machine (ATM) in the United States was installed on September 2, 1969, at a Chemical Bank branch in Rockville Centre, New York. 
The machine was manufactured by Docutel and known as a "Docuteller". It was a cash dispenser only and used plastic cards with a magnetic stripe and a Personal Identification Number (PIN), a system that became the foundation for modern ATM security. 
The bank promoted the new technology with an advertising campaign announcing, "On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!" highlighting the revolutionary 24/7 access the machine provided.

And wang word processing been around forever. The 1967 Wang PC ment you could type word docs on line and save them on PC. Yes you could not email them or send them electronically but in reality you could. You save to floppy and bring it with you.

Typing and saving to a PC is around 50 years old.  I first used a computer in 1980 at school and we saved our work on a floppy. Thats 45 years ago. All Boomers should be computer savy I do zoom meetings, emails, with my 93 year old uncle. He only retired around 2010 and he was working with computers regularly since the early 1970s. And he is 93.

Wang 1200 (1972): Wang's first word processor, it was a modification of a calculator that used an IBM Selectric typewriter for input and printing, and cassette tapes for storage. 
Wang 2200 (1973): A successful small business computer that included word processing capabilities, it featured a CRT screen and was programmed in a built-in BASIC. 
Wang WPS (1976): This dedicated, CRT-based system was a major success, quickly establishing Wang as the market leader in word processing by offering specialized, easy-to-use functionality for offices

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics