@KSmithSF As I recall, at work one of the managers bought an early IBM desktop with "discretionary funds" and was severely reprimanded. The machine was confiscated by IT and was "evaluated" by staff.
It was years before any desktop hardware was authorized.

@KSmithSF The College terminals were ASCII text connected to some scavenged computer hardware with a hacked together OS. Mostly CRT's with a few TTY's for printouts.

@KSmithSF We didn't get TSO terminals until after my first year at work. I remember the debates about whether the punch card emulation software was as safe as punch cards.

@kel "We lose memory with every account, but make it up in volume"

Hello @sfgreenwood I just got back from 2019 myself.

@Beanc on my web app, the clear appears to be a large greyed out O and just looked like the search magnifying glass at first. It behaves as the X you described, so thanks.

@Beanc for starters, if I search, the search results eliminate the the text entry box. If I have started a text and then search to check if it is already covered, I don't see an easy way to get back to my text or even to get a text box back without refreshing the screen. The keyboard commands (like n - focus on the compose text area) sometimes work, but not all and not consistently.

@Beanc I mean does someone or some group maintain the document? Things seem out of date.
The drop downs from message entry are not here anymore for example.

It looks like the UI has changed quite a bit from when the user guide PDF was last updated. Does anyone own the guide? #CoSoUserGuide

@KSmithSF In college I had a mix of punch cards and terminals. Early in my first job it was punch cards for programming, terminals were reserved for testing the data entry applications for accounting.

@KSmithSF This CS dark mode has less bright whites on my machine than Twitter does. I'm comfortable with it w/o Dark Reader.I've used DR in the past, but not recently.
When I started in computing with access to a screen, i had white or green text on a black screen or maybe amber orange later depending on the vendor .
White backgrounds for text on screens was often irritating to my eyes.

Hello, I am back after a few years to see what's up here now. Any more #BalloonJuice explorers testing the waters here?

@BenCisco hello was first and last here in 2019 according to my history. This place is still awkward to navigate. #BalloonJuice greetings

Hello, just kicking the tires for now. So many accounts, so little time. And too many folks spread across different platforms.