Post by dagspotIn my experience its always pensioners that seem to struggle with
printers and computers, should they be penalised ? MOL should be
ashamed. I wonder if our IT literate friend "Erica- Bragger" has any
comments on the OAP use of IT ?
Don't know who 'Erica' is, but I certainly have comments.
Having tinkered with radio as a boy, worked on radar and nav-aids
during a compulsory two years in the RAF, worked on electronics of
various types and on computers of various kinds up to the large
mainframes of yesterday, I don't have too much trouble (everyone has
some) with printers.
But my son-in-law had to help me with my new digital camera (still
haven't remembered my way through all its menus) and I still struggle
with an old, relatively simple mobile phone.
The latter has an 80 page manual which was easy enough to print, but
the contents I tend to forget.
And the phone often turns out not to have the capability I was looking
for anyway.
Such as saving numbers to transfer to a different SIM (no, I'm not
going to waste my limited funds on the latest Blueberry or Crabapple
or whatever).
There are always a lot of things which nobody tells you. Such as that
Vodaphone uses a lower frequency band than O2, which probably explains
why O2 coverage is so poor on this older phone (the technology will
have improved so newer ones are presumably better).
Being an OAP means that you know a lot of stuff, but some of it is now
irrelevant or even wrong, you have fewer contacts who can tell you
about the new stuff, and you tend to forget more anyway.
That's an interesting suggestion about cyber-cafes in terminal
buildings. But the rental costs would probably be very high, so it
would have to be combined with something else.
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