My 80 year old father wants to get onto the web.

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~Did any one see the skit on tv about the older people in Florida having sex??

My mother says HIV/AIDS is flaring up more than arthritis on a humid /cold day in the senior communities. I didn't ask for her source!
 
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Robert, you are absolutely the exception. This is the best engineered and most user-intuitive web site I vist. It's the nerds in Redmond who don't have a clue about the average end user's knowledge level.

And if NetZero is providing DSL and it's cheaper than Verizon, that would be the best deal. They are just re-selling Verizon's same service over the same facilities so on a technical level you couldn't do better. We had DSL from Verizon at our other place and it was turned up a day ahead of time, simple to get going, and we never had an outage.

Ralph
 
LOL i commend some of the elderly for wanting to jump in the "tech of the times" its a bigger leap than we think i love the "old school" simplicity they have my cousins mother is 87 and does emails text messages and twitter!!! i dont have twitter LOL.
go with god on helping them thats what i do with these 2 parental units.
 
Gotta love what Flroida does for the retirees. Everything flourishes there.

Friend of my dad's is 90+ years old, self-sufficent and cooks up a storm. She wanted a smooth-top in place of her coil stove basically to be up-to-date. I was duly impressed as well with her microwave oven and dishwasher.

Beyond all of that, she is quite insightful of the human condition and people's character.

She asked me flat our why I am not married. I said "I dont' go that way". Without missing a beat she said oh like ____ name of character in her saop operas and said "good for you!" We bonded instantly and strongly, HOW COOL IS SHE!
 
Not to get all gloomy-

However, it is wonderful that some of you still have living parents, and that some of them even want to explore computing and teh intarnets. Fact that some of them might even be capable of it.....!

I have a dear 88 year old aunt who has yet to meet a fwd: she didn't like. Fortunately, I have a separate email account for her and some cousins. I am certainly not going to give them the email I use for AW.org.

I've been well pleased with the Toshiba Satellite a friend made possible two years ago.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Overall, I like the idea of a Mac here. I have not had experience with OS X 10.5 (Leopard), but have seen 10.4 (Tiger). One person I gave tech support to went from XP to OS X--and the calls dropped to almost zero when she made the switch.

I also know of a senior center that uses Macs.
 
Got my mother a desk top 10 years ago she is on her thrid one and at 89 does pretty good. We had her on dialup but too slow and she'd click all over and lock the pc up. She lives for her e-mails and browseing. Hardly a week goes by that she has problems so one of us has to go fix her pc or printer. If it doesn't start printing right away she clicks more print jobs. One time she just turned it off with 200 print jobs on que. She also thinks everything is a FWD. My wife and I told her to use only one address and nothing to work for us.

My only wish is I would like to see Tonka make pc's and printers as their toys were almost indesturctible.

Go for the DSL it will be less problems for you in the long run. We got mother on cable and made one less problem.
 
Also, not understanding how a computer works or the logic behind it sort of goes with the territory for most people. Once you get past that and just let the machine do its thing, you're on your way to surfing the day away.
 

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