Brief introduction for Justin Time ....

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Found this forum slightly by accident. I have a Mixture of various ND conditions (dyslexia, ADHD, ASD) I am now retired from a rather mixed job software industry - I got a reputation for being able to solve problems which sometimes created expectations that werent always repeatable. I now programming for fun and for my wife - it is helpful to have someone to do things for.

Can fill in more details another time.
Username reflects how I tend to want to do things just in time, and end up either not doing them at all or late.......

Welcome to WP!

Thanks - I need to choose an image.
I used to belong to a forum for years but then it got regarded as old fashioned. Which it prob. Old (middle age) doesn't necessarily mean bad,,,,

Something I like about forums over (say) WhatsApp Discord is that you can "preview" and maybe "save draft". It slows me down a bit.

Welcome to WP! It is nice to meet another on the planet who also seems comfortable on the Autism Spectrum. (And friendly with computers, which is what I retired from.)

Hello and welcome to wp
Feel free to look around and join in

Hi Justin.
Welcome aboard

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Just In Time, Welcome to Wrong Planet.

Yes the world is moving forward very fast and it sometimes feels like we have been left behind. I say this because I am 76 years old. You wrote, "Something I like about forums over (say) WhatsApp Discord is that you can "preview" and maybe "save draft". It slows me down a bit."

One of the nice things about this site is that you can post a message or reply to a message and then immediately jump back in and read you message and make corrections. So within 10 minutes, I can jump back in and change my message and make corrections a dozen times.

Which leads me to a question -

1. I see how to save a draft. But cant see how to come back to it later.
2. And, how can I list my bookmarked threads.

Hmm . Have a love hate relationship with computers. When they do what i want thats good.

My first experience was punched cards. Took a week to get a result back.

That was the first computing system that I learned. At the end of high school, I took a class using these devices. It was really great working with these devices.

I started writing programs for my dad - electrical engineering lecturer. He had a real computational problem he wanted solved and as a teenager was better placed to learn.
When i went to Cambridge (1975) found other maths students had had fortune to have different experiences.

Lots of random wrong moves. Ended up in s job where my undiagnosed ASD/ ADHD sometimes was an advantage.

You know that the young ones will not even know what we are talking about. The times they are changing.

In last couple i have been going to the computer conservation society:
https://www.computerconservationsociety ... ecture.htm

Most of the talks are recorded.

Indeed.