Reading Group – Meeting No. 1

A Tweet: Why I’m Here…

I’m curious, questing, busy, dizzy, addicted to a technology ride that’s changing me and I don’t know how. I may hate Twitter. Is that bad?

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Reading Group Blog

http://blogs.acu.edu/mobileformation/

My Techno Autobio

Al Haley

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HOMEWORK

Our first TVI could watch shows from my crib…!

Classical Music on the Magnavox Hi-Fi (1959) changed my life…

We could use the mic and make secretly recordings off the radio!

The first “boom box” in my school,my Radio Central

All the technology I needed in college: a typewriter, Whiteout, and 100 rock ‘n’ roll LPs for my stereo

Welcome to the ‘80s: Shiny silver discs and lots or cassette recordings

Early Hulking VCR (I could program it to stop flashing 12:00, 12:00, 12:00…

My Job in a Bank (1980-89)CPT Stand-alone Word Processor

(black and white screen, 8” floppy discs, 2 MG memory, 100 lbs., $5k each!)

Whatever happened to Wordstar?

DIAL - UP

The 1990s

Before

After

The 21st century

Last year: I entered the blogosphere…

What goes around comes around to go around again…My 1980s Parasound turntable