Who has/had progressive lens glasses and wore them?

DeafDucky said:
I was born a CRS (Rubella)baby. severe cataracts(among other eye issues)- removed when I was an infant. I got bifocals when I was 2. have worn them all my life. I started with the lined kind. Somewhere in my 30s I switched to trifocals as I started working on computers (I actually noticed the problem with "middle distance" while playing those old video arcade games lol) AND progressives. Have never had a problem since. Before the trifocals I had lens implants done on both eyes (done 5 years apart- long story...and was a PAIN in the ass dealing with the whole corrective lens thing for 5 years- large difference in vision level without glasses).

It does take time and practice to get used to them. Both my mother and aunt has had progressive lenses. Aunt had a harder time getting used to them.

So.. even though I have lens implants I STILL have to wear corrective trifocals :( Lasik is out of the question due to severe astigmatism on right eye (Steroid shots in that eye damaged the cornea a little :( ).

A whole new set of eyes would be ace about now lol.
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Oh, just great :lol:, I now hear / process duck sounds and your ID is ducky. That's pretty funny.

I have problems in both eyes as of @2000. I finally bit the dust and got the steroid injections (hated to do it and not out of pain fear) in each eye over time. That's how I developed the cataract. I also have an astigmatism (never called severe, though) in both eyes. Sorry your cornea was damaged. Mine are intact, thank goodness.

Until the day when I cannot zoom on a computer, I will do without reading glasses. Too many lenses.
 
Quack hehehe

As for zooming.. I find ways around that especially when I'm very tired or I'm developing a migraine/pain in right eye (always right.. I have no idea why)... I set up my pc with the lowest resolution possible (I am SO pissed off that most web developers ignore the 600x800 resolution crowd now :( ), use keystrokes/mouse scrolls to make the page larger to see/read the text. Comes in handy! Love the mouse scroll trick to death lol.

Not sure what the hell I'll do if I ever lose more of my vision to where I can't see the computer screen or read books. It is my livelihood/job and I enjoy it in my off time.
 
DeafDucky said:
Quack hehehe

As for zooming.. I find ways around that especially when I'm very tired or I'm developing a migraine/pain in right eye (always right.. I have no idea why)... I set up my pc with the lowest resolution possible (I am SO pissed off that most web developers ignore the 600x800 resolution crowd now :( ), use keystrokes/mouse scrolls to make the page larger to see/read the text. Comes in handy! Love the mouse scroll trick to death lol.

Not sure what the hell I'll do if I ever lose more of my vision to where I can't see the computer screen or read books. It is my livelihood/job and I enjoy it in my off time.
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Quack quack 600x800 is old news. Yes, I have an old laptop to go with that and I use it when I get in bed for the night. Getting on here and other websites is a pain in the feathers. But with the higher resolution (if you can see) comes the crispness of the pixels and the screen. I started my computer life on a mainframe using a green/black monitor :) .
 
yeah it is. I had to really fiddle with the settings on Baby Dell to be able to see well. It's a higher resolution but playing with other features I was able to get it to wear it's doable for me, along with the other tricks I know like keystrokes/mouse to zoom in. I don't like the magnifying programs I've tried so far- difficult to move around to be honest. Never tried ZoomText- I'm not at the point where I need that yet (plus it's EXPENSIVE from what I have heard).

Green screen eh? That's what my job experience is in :) Mainframe testing-- CICS (aka green screen), COBOL batch etc. I know we had something at Gally- used "dumb terminals" but don't remember if it was mainframe or something like VAX? (this was in the mid 80s- the windows based PCs didn't come until my last year there). I cut my teeth on DOS too lol.
 
My first computer was a Radio Shack Model 1. Also had the Model 2 and Color Computer. This was all when I was 16 or so.

First calculator was an abacus.
 
my mother is wearing those stuff this year since she can't see crap out of the other pairs (I also wear bifocals since I can't see small crap far away)
 
DeafDucky said:
yeah it is. I had to really fiddle with the settings on Baby Dell to be able to see well. It's a higher resolution but playing with other features I was able to get it to wear it's doable for me, along with the other tricks I know like keystrokes/mouse to zoom in. I don't like the magnifying programs I've tried so far- difficult to move around to be honest. Never tried ZoomText- I'm not at the point where I need that yet (plus it's EXPENSIVE from what I have heard).

Green screen eh? That's what my job experience is in :) Mainframe testing-- CICS (aka green screen), COBOL batch etc. I know we had something at Gally- used "dumb terminals" but don't remember if it was mainframe or something like VAX? (this was in the mid 80s- the windows based PCs didn't come until my last year there). I cut my teeth on DOS too lol.
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HOLLLDD ON THERE. NO ONE REFERS TO CICS OR COBOL. CICS was cools because we had to trace the information displayed there back to what DB2 on the mainframe to ensure what was on MVS in the db was in CICS. I started with IBM @1977. VM was an easy word processor that had turned into much more because it was easier to use. But MVS was the number cruncher. I had to learn how to use both and all. Then we transitioned GPG to run on a RISC6000 (GPG as in GIS now). Man, those were really fun and good memories. I'm really offtrack and apologize. But thanks!
 
Oops yea- sorry for derailing the thread! But so nice to run into other deaf folks who know about COBOL, mainframe and all that stuff LOL :) (only know of one other- he is someone I knew in college)
 
DeafDucky said:
Oops yea- sorry for derailing the thread! But so nice to run into other deaf folks who know about COBOL, mainframe and all that stuff LOL :) (only know of one other- he is someone I knew in college)
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The thread is pretty dead. I'm sure this is fine. Since I grew up at IBM, CICS, VS COBOL, VS FORTRAN - the lady who wrote the first FORTRAN that ended up in one of the Smithsonians was in my dept. I even had a guy whose sole purpose was to write the object code only for Assembly language :).

It gets me excited to read or hear about someone who knows what CICS is or a little later a graphic program fault (the blue screen of death) on Windows OS.

Anyway, thanks again for the trip down memory lane :) .
 
SBirn said:
The thread is pretty dead. I'm sure this is fine. Since I grew up at IBM, CICS, VS COBOL, VS FORTRAN - the lady who wrote the first FORTRAN that ended up in one of the Smithsonians was in my dept. I even had a guy whose sole purpose was to write the object code only for Assembly language :).

It gets me excited to read or hear about someone who knows what CICS is or a little later a graphic program fault (the blue screen of death) on Windows OS.

Anyway, thanks again for the trip down memory lane :) .
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In college, I took BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN. (Never used it in the real world, so I don't remember anything useful.) We used punch cards, boxes of perforated paper, flow chart templates (little plastic geeky ones) and stared for hours at screens that had text only . . . and we thought it was fantastic! :lol:

DOS :roll:

I felt I had arrived when we used Mac's in our Navy public affairs office (early 90's). :D

I got to meet computer legend Grace Hopper when I was a junior enlisted Navy journalist, and got to interview her. A very sweet but spunky lady on top of being super smart. The only Navy officer I knew who wore a hair net. :giggle:
 
SBirn said:
The thread is pretty dead. I'm sure this is fine. Since I grew up at IBM, CICS, VS COBOL, VS FORTRAN - the lady who wrote the first FORTRAN that ended up in one of the Smithsonians was in my dept. I even had a guy whose sole purpose was to write the object code only for Assembly language :).

It gets me excited to read or hear about someone who knows what CICS is or a little later a graphic program fault (the blue screen of death) on Windows OS.

Anyway, thanks again for the trip down memory lane :) .
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:) You're welcome. I did take an intro to Computers (and dumb terminals lol) at Gallaudet in the 80s then used BASIC (Computers & Education- my major was in Education) in another class- really liked that class a ton. Yeah.. Seems most of my jobs are related to IBM, COBOL, JCL, ISPF/TSO... getting harder to find though.

My dad's best friend from high school moved out to California back in the early 1970s (I was at least 8...) and he was a programmer there long before Silicon Valley- worked mostly in FORTRAN and Pascal I think.. I'd have to ask dad again.

Would love to get into programming, challenging finding a job as I'm 'older' (pfft I feel 25...)and deaf (90% don't understand or 'get it' or even try...)
 
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