Apple IIe! My parents paid like $5,600 for theirs in 1983-84. Then got the baddest PC computer you could get in 1990-91 for $1,000. Makes sense doesn't?! lol!Originally Posted by uproot
Apple IIe! My parents paid like $5,600 for theirs in 1983-84. Then got the baddest PC computer you could get in 1990-91 for $1,000. Makes sense doesn't?! lol!
Had a Commodore 64 myself, its funny seeing young people act like computers were just invented in the early 90's.
Anyway, something seems very strange about this story. In all these years I have to believe she had a chance to escape but I think there are instances where the captive comes to have sympathy for their captor and even endears them. Nevertheless it would be interesting to understand the psychological effect on these children and their adaption to society, something more than just "oh my god they've never seen myspace."
I really hope that was not directed towards me. I understand computer advances were way before those years, but they are NOTHING like they are now, just like 10, 20 years from now, they will be nothing like they were now. Lets go put you in the jungle for 15 years and bring you back and see how technologically capable you are. Yeah maybe you could sit there and mess with it and figure it out, as with anything, but you wont know how to right off the bat just from what you did 15+years previously. Computers run society in this day and age. In ways it is sad, but in others it makes things flow a lot better. Things such as Myspace, facebook, IA, are just added social things that DO play a large part in things. Positive or negative, but the point is they are there and in use.
Read your post again...
She was actually on a computer all the time sending e-mails while operating a printing business from the house...I know this is sarcasm, but think about it...I bet she has no clue how to use a computer! If she has even ever seen one!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/30/...irl/index.html
Kinda like Stockholm Syndrome. I am absolutely positive that she had chances to escape herself, but what about her kids? When her captors left her, maybe they took 1 or both kids with her? Conditioning her over a span of years that society wouldnt want her back because she was 'damaged' is also a very real possibility.
Maybe some of you older folk can remember, but wasnt there a very similar case back in the mid 80's?
My bedroom in 1987. Commodore 64C. Later, QD.
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