To cut a long story short, earlier this year I stood on my mouse, which I bought for 99p 6 years ago and stood me in good stead. Needless to say it was Donald and I had to resort to the touchpad, which I hated. Anyway on Thursday I decided to invest in a wireless mouse. It has taken me two days to get it operative. Firstly, I was not told that it needed batteries (not supplied). After three hours I finally managed to wrench the wretched thing out of the stiff plastic wrapping. What few instructions there were said I needed an AA battery. That was a no-no as even I could see that the hole wan't big enough. On closer inspection I realised that it needed two AAA batteries, which I purchased this afternoon. Having managed to insert them with some difficulty, hallelujah, it works... or not. It has an on/off switch underneath and also a mind of its own. I switch it on, and if I don't touch it for about 10 minutes it switches itself off. Pity you can't get computers anymore which run off the gas!
I bought a wireless mouse as I thought that it was the way forward. I knew that cats chased mice but not that they enjoyed swatting the thing with the red light off the desk. I gave up.
I have a mouse with a lead on my laptop and I have disabled the touchpad because Princess Merlin enjoyed stomping that far too much.
I rather like the pen holder my laptop has. You push a little button on the side and a tray pops out a bit, perfect! If you pull the tray a bit further it doubles as a coffee cup holder, great bit of engineering.
My first computer didn't have a hard drive, Hc! (Atari ST).
Before that, I'd had to learn to program computers without a computer! (I had to encode programs onto punch cards, which were then posted to the polytechnic so that, about a week later, I could get a letter telling me that the program couldn't be run as I'd made a typing error!)
I spent about £200 on my Atari ST and accessories (such as a joystick, which I never used) in Selfridges.
However, apart from games, there was very little ready-built software for it, so I had to fork out another £250 for a DTP program (Pagestream). It came on about a dozen floppies. Interestingly though, there was very little it couldn't do that Quark Xpress can currently do (and which requires a minimum of 2Gb disc space!)
I share your pain
Have a new Acer PC
Windows 10
Was happily working on Windows 7 before
Complete nightmare, feel so inadequate
Used to enjoy playing Scrabble via Facebook, now takes a hit and miss to get to the site
Not a mind reader (if computers can be said to have one)