On 26/06/2013 9:01 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 6/26/2013 8:08 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> I caught her at my brother's place checking out facebook. She's 85.
>> I shudder to think what trouble she'd get into if we could teach her
>> to use a computer.
>>
> My mother was using a computer into her 80s.
>

When my father was 75 his electric typewriter broke down and I made the
mistake of suggesting he get a computer and printer. He just was not of
the computer generation. He was a mechanical whizz. He could do most
trade work... electrical, body work, masonry, woodworking, plumbing,
automechanics. He had been an aircraft mechanic during the war and then
trained for aircrew and got his wings. But dammit, at that age he just
could not get the hand of computers. Every time he had to write a letter
I would have to hop in the car and drive 15 miles to their house to
guide him through it. After he died and my mother moved into a condo we
set the computer up in her spare room but I don't think she ever touched it.