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『太平洋电脑网』为什么老年人难以理解当今的科技究竟有发达？

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『太平洋电脑网』为什么老年人难以理解当今的科技究竟有发达？
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正文翻译：
Why is it so hard for old people to understand how incredible the technology of today is?
为什么老人难以理解当今的科技究竟有发达？
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Timothy Mauch, former Submarine sonar Chief Petty Officer at United States Navy (1976-1991)
蒂莫西·毛奇 ， 前美国海军潜艇声呐军士长（1976-1991）
“Why is it so hard for old people to understand how incredible the technology of today is?”
Why? I’m almost 60. I guess I’m old (when I was 18, my girlfriend called me an “old fuddy-duddy”), so I’ll give it a try. I’ll stick to electronics.
When I was young, Black & White TV was the norm (one per house, and some houses had none, because TVs were very expensive.) and very few TV shows were broadcast in Color. The inside of a TV was full of glowing vacuum tubes. When you turned the TV on, you had to wait a while for the tubes to warm-up, before you saw a picture. There were four networks Three were commercial (ABC, NBC, CBS) and one was educational (PBS). Only very, very expensive TVs had remote control (on/off & channel up/down. It was ultrasonic, and if you jangled a key-chain in the room, the noise would make the TV change channels). Our remote control was Dad yelling at me to get up and change the channel. Everybody watched whatever Dad wanted to watch. When the TV broke, you called the TV repair shop (there was just one telephone in the house, with wires, and it belonged to the only phone company )Pacific Northwest Bell, for us), and a repairman came to fix it. He carried a wooden box (looked like a tool box) FULL of tubes and knew everything about the TV’s circuitry. His van had thousands of tubes and books with the circuitry of every TV.
“为什么老人难以理解当今的科技究竟有发达？”
为什么？我快要60岁了 。 我想我大概已经老了(在我18岁的时候 ， 我的女朋友就叫我“老古董”) ， 因此我尝试一直坚持使用电子产品 。
我小时候那会 ， 黑白电视是常态(一户人家一个 ， 当然有些人家没有 ， 因为电视很贵) ， 而且很少有彩色的电视节目 。 电视的机箱里充满了发光的电子管 。 你打开电视后 ， 需要等上一会儿让管子发热 ， 然后才能看到画面 。 当时有四个电视网 ， 其中三个是商业的(ABC ， NBC ， CBS) ， 一个是教育的(PBS) 。 当时只有非常非常昂贵的电视机配有遥控器(开/关/调上个频道/下个频道 。 遥控器采用的是超声波技术 ， 哪怕你在房间里用钥匙链发出一些声音 ， 噪音就会让电视换频道) 。 至于我家的遥控方式——我爸对我大吼几声 ， 让我起来换频道 。 家里每个人都只能看爸爸想看的节目 ， 不论他想看的是什么 。 如果电视机坏了 ， 你需要打电话给电视修理店(我家那会只有一个电话 ， 有电话线的那种 ， 它属于当时唯一的电话公司：西北太平洋贝尔电话公司) ， 会有一个修理工来修理它 。 他对电视的线路了如指掌 ， 带着一个里头装满管子的木盒 (看起来像一个工具箱) 。 他的面包车里有无数根电子管 ， 无数本关于电视电路的书籍 。
Black & white TV
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