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Posted: 11/21/2012 7:10:11 PM EDT

[#1]

Our damn computers have so much downtime that we probably wouldn't notice they're totally dead.
Might actually improve productivity.

Posted: 11/21/2012 7:11:09 PM EDT

[#2]

I'm a data analyst... so... about 30 seconds while I explained the last reports I printed to some execs?

Wait.. only "personal" computers? I'd be good to go. I hate it, but I do have access to SAS on a mainframe. If that's still around, I'd still have a job.

Posted: 11/21/2012 7:11:43 PM EDT

[#3]

I'd go back to hand writing deals at my desk which is something I did before the advent of PC's.
I kind of miss those days.

Posted: 11/21/2012 7:13:52 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Including all Mac's, Ipads, and smartphones, etc. The cause is a non-issue. The question is this- How long could you stay actively employed in your current job without the use or access to a PERSONAL computer?

After the chaos died down my employment would be golden. After a week of anarchy states side and a few days in A-stan the Army would go back to pen and paper and radio comms and life would return to normal... Although a much slower and probably better for me normal.

This is assuming the computers that help keep the airplanes flying, boats sailing, weapons firing, power generating, ect dont shit the bed also.... Then things get real interesting real fast.

A few people I know remember when the Melissa Virus basically shut the .mils network down for a few days, after the brass got done hyperventilating they said it was great. PC's and cellphones are great and improve information flow but they also allow for alot of unneccesary shit to become possible.

Posted: 11/21/2012 7:16:58 PM EDT

[#5]

forever. would have to use my pen a bit more, but meh.

Posted: 11/21/2012 7:58:00 PM EDT

[#6]

We will have to make our own crystal PC just like the old crystal radio sets.

A rubber eraser, hand wound coil, a rusty spatula and some elbow macaroni and we're in.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:02:09 PM EDT

[#7]

I'd be fine as long as I had a slide rule and a straight edge.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:03:12 PM EDT

[#8]

Well, the law library would be busier than usual, and I'd want to find a typewriter (actually, I think I'd hire a typist), but I think I'd fine.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:04:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Not even miss a beat.

Keeping an eyeball on the weather during harvest would go back to bieng sketchy but that is about it.

Odds are my customers would end up driving me batshit from calling though.
Might have to hire someone to answer the phone in the name of humanity.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:06:58 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I'm a systems engineer so I'd be fucked.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:07:37 PM EDT

[#11]

About zero days.

Software tester.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:16:00 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Meh, the majority of our fleet is powered by either a 3126, 6.4 or maxxforce 9. The maxxforce would die very quickly, but the 3126's would last a while until something went really wrong…and the older mechanical 8.3's will keep chugging along as always

It wouldn't bother me a bit to go back to the old mechanical DT440's

Carburetors either for the gas stuff. I'm old though

Mechanical Internationals are great, there newer stuff with the EGR is stupid

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:21:14 PM EDT

[#13]

I am an IT consultant so my response would be, "Free at last, free at last! Oh Lord, free at last!"

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:23:23 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Hell I work for the government. We would probably GAIN productivity without technology. It's not like you can go backwards from 0.

This is the Government we're talking about, anything is possible. Negative productivity is not only probable, but likely.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:23:29 PM EDT

[#15]

Less than 1 minute.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:27:34 PM EDT

[#16]

Our hospital has downtime forms for everything, supposedly. I have my doubts.

Regardless, nursing could truck on. Not sure what pharmacy would do since they're completely computerized. Not sure pharmacy would know what to do without a computer guiding their every little decision.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:28:43 PM EDT

[#17]

Totally screwed, modern forms of polygraph recordings are mostly digital now. No way to access ebay to pick up an old Grass pen/paper unit. I'm not even sure if Grass or Nihon Kohden even make an analog mechanical unit any more....

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:34:07 PM EDT

[#18]

Being a PC tech/help desk tech/AV tech, not very long.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:38:59 PM EDT

[#19]

I would be out of a job immediately.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:40:15 PM EDT

[#20]

Let me get this straight:

You're saying that I can't cruze ARF from work all day?

I'd guess I'd have to retire?

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:44:47 PM EDT

[#21]

Let's see... we make computers here. If the new ones coming off the line are also dead, then work would be kinda pointless.

Not that we'd stop.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:45:39 PM EDT

[#22]

I would immediately lose all possible access to my work, and everything my work relates to would be irrelevant.

ETA I would join the FSA at that point, but the computers that pay the FSA wouldn't work, so there wouldn't be much reason to it.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:47:52 PM EDT

[#23]

Life will go on

We will have formations and meetings

No more bs emails

Free

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:49:31 PM EDT

[#24]

I'm unemployed...so indefinitely. However, if the computers did crash I'd have a job within a day.

Posted: 11/21/2012 8:59:27 PM EDT

[#25]

We would break out the slide rules and land 3 men on the moon before the decade is finished.

Posted: 11/21/2012 9:02:07 PM EDT

[#26]

It would be time to break out the drafting tables and slide rules but we would manage pretty well as long as we still had a fax machine. If no fax then it would probably triple our time from concept to being on-site but we would still get by pretty well. Although doing hydraulic calculations completely by hand all the time would really be the suck.

Posted: 11/21/2012 9:15:46 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I have a theory.

That just off his master bedroom, Bill Gates has a smaller room protected by a steel door that opens to only his handprint. And that room is covered in deep red silk. In the center is a pedestal in on that pedestal is a single red button.

If you push that button, it sends a secret signal out to all Windows programs to delete everything on that program's host computer and network.

Every night Bill goes into that room and caresses that button while touching himself...dreaming of the day he decides he is nearing the end of his life and will leave, as his everlasting legacy, a world full of dead computers.

Or maybe not. ?Quien Saben?

You think about an old geezer touching himself?
You have issues

Posted: 11/21/2012 9:29:38 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

Quoted:
While we use computers to make things easier, my vocation doesn't necessarily depend on them.

All jobs depend on computers!

Not really. We could run entirely without computers pretty easily.

Posted: 11/21/2012 9:45:26 PM EDT

[#29]

Fuck work, where would I get porn?

Posted: 11/21/2012 9:53:45 PM EDT

[#30]

Restaurant management. Though everything we do is computerized, I assure you we'd be serving burgers and beer by the morrow.

Posted: 11/21/2012 10:19:15 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
I have a theory.

That just off his master bedroom, Bill Gates has a smaller room protected by a steel door that opens to only his handprint. And that room is covered in deep red silk. In the center is a pedestal in on that pedestal is a single red button.

If you push that button, it sends a secret signal out to all Windows programs to delete everything on that program's host computer and network.

Every night Bill goes into that room and caresses that button while touching himself...dreaming of the day he decides he is nearing the end of his life and will leave, as his everlasting legacy, a world full of dead computers.

Or maybe not. ?Quien Saben?

...Chapter ONE.....
Next please?
.
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. My business would continue post-internet.
It would take a while to get the petroleum refineries and electrical generating plants back in operation.
There would be some disruption, but it would sort.

Posted: 11/21/2012 10:38:49 PM EDT

[#32]

Since you qualified it as a personal computer, quite a while.

Granted, my workstation is really not much different than a PC, other than a smaller hard drive. But it's not a PC, just like a scary black gun isn't an assault rifle.

The loss of personally owned smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc. would certainly hurt... for about a week. Sales would probably increase after that, as consulting services would skyrocket.

Now, if you talked about the loss of all computers... let's put it this way: I submit purchase orders for Fusion IO drives. I also have access to the roof. Do the math

Posted: 11/21/2012 10:40:35 PM EDT

[#33]

im in IT.

lets just say unless its a fixable problem im out of a job.

Posted: 11/21/2012 11:34:35 PM EDT

[#34]

We'd all go out and buy one of these for $250 ($100 cashback offer is still running).
HP Microserver
It's not a PC/iPad/Phone/etc so will still be functioning, problem solved.

Assuming that Leaf meant all computers I'd be pretty screwed since I work with servers.

Posted: 11/22/2012 12:37:20 AM EDT

[#35]

Say bye

SCADA tech

Posted: 11/22/2012 12:54:22 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Say bye

SCADA tech

me too

plus poly phase metering, radio work, traffic signals, storm sirens and anything else

Posted: 11/22/2012 1:38:03 AM EDT

[#37]

Network admin for a mail order company. Though it's a family business, so should be ok

Posted: 11/22/2012 2:04:48 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I'm a systems engineer so I'd be fucked.

Something like that.

Posted: 11/22/2012 2:10:45 AM EDT

[#39]

I am a webdesigner, printdesigner and photographer.

My job would last like one second.

So stop your mindblowing hypthesis!

Posted: 11/22/2012 3:49:50 AM EDT

[#40]

I would be completely fucked as would my company and a larger percentage of our customers.

Posted: 11/22/2012 3:51:42 AM EDT

[#41]

Database Admin, I'd be fooked.

Posted: 11/22/2012 3:52:49 AM EDT

[#42]

Other than losing a good portion of my tenets due to unemployment I believe I could still hang in there.

Posted: 11/22/2012 4:28:01 AM EDT

[#43]

Im an Electrician so i'd be pretty good. Actually i'd probably be alot busier what with all the switching that would be required now that plc's no longer work. I would miss arfcom though... and porn... i would miss porn. But id have more money so maybe hookers could fill that gap.
I have mixed feelings about this.

Posted: 11/22/2012 5:33:28 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:

im a school bus driver .... i would be ok

Until it broke down or needed maintenance...computer controlled. If it's a dinosaur International...you'd be ok

i work at waffle house too

I love waffle house.

You two should hook-up.

QUICK!!....throw some rice.

Posted: 11/22/2012 5:34:39 AM EDT

[#45]

All of my billing at the end of the month would be a pain in the ass, but other than that, nothing would change.

Posted: 11/22/2012 5:52:52 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

Including all Mac's, Ipads, and smartphones, etc. The cause is a non-issue. The question is this- How long could you stay actively employed in your current job without the use or access to a PERSONAL computer?

Considering I work as a web designer / Developer not very long

Posted: 11/22/2012 6:08:41 AM EDT

[#47]

As long as this isn't the complete end of all computers of any type my job would remain more or less unchanged. As long as dispatch has access to a mainframe or mini computer to make changes to accounts and add or remove features then we are good. Otherwise we would have to drastically change how we do things. We could still operate, and somewhat efficiently, but it would make things we take for granted, like instantly adding or removing premium channels a more time consuming chore.