On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards) ,
Joyce Bupp
No. I don’t want to go back to
the “good old days.”
And, I’m not going to wax sen
timental about how we used to do
things. Or how simple or much
better life used to be. Or bore you
with all that “now, when I was a
1dd...” stuff.
Still, there are moments when I
almost yearn to return to the his
torical era of B.C.
You know B.C. Before
Computers.
Computerization has “tripped
my trigger” since the first Pcs
came onto the market at a price
that made the ownership of such
technology a cost-effective possi
bility for the general public.
Nevertheless, every advance I’ve
made on the road to technological
progress has had to begin with a
push.
That’s because, despite glib
“plug-and-play” maiketing prom
ises, there will inevitably be a
bunch of gliches somewhere in
between the plugging in and the
playing of the program. The
incredible advancement of com
puter technology has still not
overcome the fact that taking a
byte into the chip still yields some
crumbs.
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Our first computer came into
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my faithful, used, electric typewri
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lime, and choked. A total techno
logical ignoramus, except for the
minimal terminology I’d grasped
scanning reading materials, I tip
toed into a local computer sales
room like a 5-year-old entering
kindergarten. But I returned home
with 128 K memory and a knot in
my stomach.
How would I ever get the stuff
up and running?
No sweat. Our youngest para
ded home from sixth grade,
plugged all the components
together, and in an hour I was
computing. With a call to the man
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managed to eliminate the triple
spacing the printer insisted on
inserting between every line of
hard copy.
Confidence grew as I learned to
malcf. the system work, though I
never did really learn DOS or how
to go into the guts of the system.
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lute terror into my heart Never
more so than when I hit some
combination of keys which to
this day I’ve never figured out
and got total computer lock-up
and a stem message that “you
have found an ertor at
123456789...” or whatever bunch
of numbers it happened to be.
A decade later, the beloved
sidekick followed the typewriter
to high-tech heaven. With slightly
more confidence this round, we
entered a new era of Windows on
the world. And fell in love with a
mouse that did something more
worthwhile thim chew up stuff it
shouldn’t and leave residue
behind in the cupboards and draw
ers. Still plugging away, however,
was our original stone-age-geared,
dot-matrix printer.
The mouse’s tummy ball was
barely warm from use when com
puterization zoomed past on the
wings of pentium chips, modem,
laptops and a new addiction called
“surfing the web.” In a technologi
cal heartbeat, me and my little
mouse friend were rended
obsolete.
Thus, again, the need to inter
face with today’s comprehensive,
amazing, but memory-hog prog
rams have booted this simple
minded, non-technorat along yet
another stretch of the information
highway. Anti I was dragged,
screaming and yelling, into it
Because I knew hill well that the
upgraded computer road would be
fraught with potholes and my life
was too busy to take all these
detours. Just let me keep comput
ing on what I knew how to
operate.
hi the end, the promised desti
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navigate die potholes along the
way. Some of ’em are filled,
though rough edges and periodic
speed bumps pop up on this
sometimes-exciting, sometimes
aggravating journey. I still
stumble across an occasional error
message, though they offer more
explanation: “An unrecoverable
error occurred accessing the drive
or cartridge. There is a DMA con
flict when using this drive.” Or,
“Error on file; did not match
data.”
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Later the computer gods relent
and pat me on die back: “Your
files are safely backed up.” I hope
it knows. I don’t
And—as if to taunt me even as
I wrote this the power shut
down midway through this col
umn and I had to rewrite half of it
We might have smoothed most
of the potholes.
But the souvenir gray hairs I’ve
picked up on the trip are no doubt
here for life.
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