ccj2525Dec 14, 2022
Purl

I guess it’s time for me to write an #introduction.
I prefer to go by Purl (she/her). I’m a returning-to-college student studying cybersecurity and then probably staying on for an MBA. I have a husband, 2 teenage sons, and 4 cats. I first got into computers when I was a kid and my sister brought home a hospital castoff model and some floppy disks.

I’ve coached FIRST robotics teams for several years but we’re taking this year off. When I’m not studying or messing with computers, I like knitting, quilting, fishing, camping, and reading. I’m another birdsite refugee, but I’m glad I found this server in particular because I like to be where the smart people are. I’m here to observe and hopefully to learn and meet some cool people.

Nov 16, 2022 at 7:51pmWeb
Show threadBea ResNov 16, 2022
@purl welcome to Mastodon, Purl! 
Show threadPurlNov 16, 2022
@beatrice Thank you!
Show threadBarry Schwartz Nov 17, 2022

@purl My first computer was a 4K TRS-80 (with no floppies) that my mother got me when I got out of a mental health clinic in 1979. I was 18.

She’d promised it to me, but she usually simply backed out of promises. It was her way. I shamed her into carrying through, this one time.

Show threadBarry Schwartz Nov 17, 2022

@purl I had already been programming TI-55 calculators and using that to draw plane figures on graph paper.

(The TI-55 was an awful calculator IMO. What I like most is the HP-11C. I still have mine, and an emulator for Android.)

Show threadPurlNov 17, 2022
@chemoelectric I still have my TI-83 from 20 years ago. It got me through a lot of math classes.
Show threadBarry Schwartz Nov 18, 2022

@purl My HP-11C would be almost 40 years old now. And the HP-28C not much younger.

The former has sticky keys now. That could be remedied. It’s had milk spilled on it, etc.

The latter always had garbagy keys. :) And it’s not true RPN. You have to manually clear the stack. Annoying.

Show threadBarry Schwartz Nov 18, 2022
@purl They sold the 28C only for about a year before they came out with the much improved 28S. I got ripped off!