My granddad is 87 years old.
He has a hunched back (right sp?), and though I'm not tall, I have to lean down to kiss him on the cheeks.
He's a pretty loveable person. His wife died just two years ago, he lost his daughter last summer, but he still finds ways to enjoy life.
Yesterday he came to dinner.
As he came in, he said: "Look, I bought a new camera"
"A digicam?" I asked - that was a joke, but to my surprise, he confirmed it was a digital camera.
"But Granddad, you don't have a computer" I said.
"Do I need one?" he asked...
When I asked him why he had bought that specific brand of camera, he said: "This one had the cheapest memory cards, because memory cards are pretty expensive, that's something to consider when you buy a cam, so you won't end up paying a lot every time you need a new card."
I explained to him that the memory cards can be erased and re-used all the time...
Boy, the world sure changed since he was young!

:lol: That would be like my grand father (although not always lovable). He has a computer with windows 3.1 and he has never even used it (it was only my grandma that did). He said he doesn't even know how to turn the thing on. I tried to explain but he still doesn't get it. I guess i'll have to go over there and put sticky notes everywhere or something.

awwww LOL that's SO cute!!

Haha, yeah- It's kind of amazing when you think about how many people that grew up in previous generations have learned how to use technologic things like this. It's different for me, cause I gre up with it all.. I don't think I'd be able to be like your Granddad, Marianne!

i can see michaela telling me later "what you were around when the internet wasnt?? what did you guys do???" lol we were like taht with our parents and tv

That's so funny :lol:! Is he going to take it back, then? Since he doesn't have a computer?
I know a lot of adults (that aren't even that old) that are really bad with anything "high-tech". I've must've told myself a hundred times never to fall behind with that sort of thing. I'm sure it will happen though... Get busy with life and whoops, no idea how to work this thing :lol:

:) My grandmother bought a computer. Of course, in her weekly phone calls, my dad has to explain how to use the thing.

well i saw a commercial here where you could take your memory chip from your digital camera into the store and get prints that way, i think even if you don't have a computer it's cool to have to print it that way. You can choose which ones you want and you see them right then and there. Of course you can't store them but hey

that's a lot like my grandpa! he has windows XP and all those nice gadgets, but he doesn't really know how to use them. furthermore, he doesn't speak english very well [at all!] so he's constantly calling me up, asking me to explain how to add a website to his favorites folder and stuff like that. it gets pretty frustrating because it takes him a while to understand it, and my computer settings are different than his so i have to guess a lot of the time :lol: anyway, i guess my dad ordered him those russian letter keyboard stick-on things, so he just sent his first email. he was very proud, it was pretty cute :D i can't imagine what advancements will be made by the time we're old and grey. ahh, i hope i don't annoy my grandkids!

well i saw a commercial here where you could take your memory chip from your digital camera into the store and get prints that way, i think even if you don't have a computer it's cool to have to print it that way. You can choose which ones you want and you see them right then and there. Of course you can't store them but hey
Yeah, I think we have that too, so he could just take his cam with him every time he visits someone with a puter, and have them store the pictures on CD's for him, and he could have the pictures printed in stores that do that.

I think he'll buy a computer, I told him if he wanted to use it for only the purpose of storing his pics on file, he didn't need anything too expensive, a second hand would do.
Then he said: "But if I buy a computer, I want one with a DVD drive".
So I asked why. He said: "I want to watch films".
He doesn't have a TV because the church doesn't allow it, so this would be a nice workaround LOL. If my grandma was still alive she would have spanked him :lol:
Anyway, I told him NOT to go buy a computer without someone who knows more about computers, I kind of feel the sales person that sold him the digicam took advantage of his ignorance, don't want that to happen again.
He's such a loveable granddad, really.

awww he seems so cute! :) i think salespeople often take advantage of my dad[lol :D], because he goes to the store and comes home with 10 items that he doesn't even know what to use for :lol: silly papa.