TYPING

This comes at a time and place that I am not sure of. What to write and what to make of it - I'd rather say I am doing it for the sheer pleasure of it. 

As a kid I used to ask my father to get from his office the REMINGTON typewriter for the weekend. I would keep on typing endlessly day and night blackening God knows how many pages. I thank him for doing that - he allowed me to do a simple thing, a thing I wanted to do by lending me Mr. Partap Singh's typewriter for Saturday Sunday night.

Remington Typewriter

Then in 1992 my father bought our first PC - model 386. I had just dropped bags after returning from school, when was informed of the new purchase. Without caring a thing, I was back on my bicycle going to our shop in Sector 22. It was a fantastic machine and had operating platform as DOS (Disk Operating System) besides Windows. Since I had no What When How of Windows, I switched the machine ON and was stuck for eternity at C:\

Kept writing HELP….HELP ME……START….but the only answer I got to each request was - Bad command or file name. Those were the days. 

Intel - Model 386

Finally Mr. Baldev of Kirloskar showed the way and I got a handle on it. The handle went to the extent that I started doing my homework on a word processor called 'WORDSTAR'. On day of  homework submission, I took the printouts on a L&T dot matrix printer and presented it to Ressal Raj Sir - our physics teacher. Still remember his remark - 'You might have whatever at your place, the homework has to be submitted hand written'. I was disappointed. I was just excited to type and typing out my homework just gave the whole exercise a new purpose. What an oppressor man!

Many a computers/laptops/netbooks later, comes - iMac.

iMac

Busy getting a handle on Steve Jobs philosophy of simplistic design - and the typing continues...