I may be showing my age a bit, but my school still taught shorthand in grade school up into the seventh grade. It was funny as many surrounding school districts did not iclude short hand as part of the curriculum. The very first computer I was exposed to was a TRS 80 model III and remember the excitement of going to "computer class" during my third period in school. We were very poor, so could not afford a PC of our own. My dad was in the Navy and did a payroll deduction to get an Epson PC/printer kit (PC, monitor, dot matrix printer). It still took months to get into the PC and was only through a local Radio Shack that I was exposed to the bbs world.

Now, eveything is on tabets, phones, etc. My grandkids get a ChromeBook assigned to them at the beginning of the school year and return it two weeks before the end of the year. All of their work is to be completed via the ChromeBook. No acxtual textbooks anymore in their school district, which I guess works as they allocate the funds spent of books to other technologies.

I spent over 30 years in the IT field and I am always amazed by the progression of technologies.

You all have a very Merry Christmas and happiest of New Year!

Charon
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Re: Decline of PC's
By: Charon to All on Thu Dec 25 2025 07:08 am

I may be showing my age a bit, but my school still taught
shorthand in grade school up into the seventh grade. It was funny
as many surrounding school districts did not iclude short hand as

pretty sure they stopped that long ago.
I wish i could have learned shorthand. i did create my own form of shorthand for taking notes at work.
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Charon wrote to All <=-

Now, eveything is on tabets, phones, etc. My grandkids get a
ChromeBook assigned to them at the beginning of the school year and
return it two weeks before the end of the year. All of their work is
to be completed via the ChromeBook. No acxtual textbooks anymore in
their school district, which I guess works as they allocate the funds spent of books to other technologies.

My daughter's school does everything on iPad, and it's a horrible idea.
They're managing them all as BYOD so kids can install what they want
(since it's their iPad). iMessage works over wireless, so they can
message during school (but messaging on your phone is a no-no...). And,
once they start writing essays, you're spending at least $100 for a
keyboard.

Chromebooks seemed like a much more affordable, more versatile, more controllable solution.

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