Easy Money?? Part 3

WOW - It is amazing how much I don't know. As I started this blog I have run across literally hundreds of things that make me go - Huh?!!

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
made me think
WTHIT (What The Hell Is This)

I thought html was an abbreviation for Hotmail.

LMAO I knew from replies to my previous dumbness.

Adsense didn't make hardly any sense to begin with.
"Copy and paste between the body of html file." What are they talking about? Back to WTHIT, I guess. Luckily, on Blogger there was an Add Page Element with Adsense blocks which I figured out after another half hour of head scratching and as you can see there are 3 small Adsense ads now on my page. As I look at them, they really don't make a lot of sense (cents either) with what's in the blog. Oh well, this is still a learning experience.

So far I have spent a lot of brain time and a little bit of money working at this Easy Online Money Quest and in return have made $43.91 which probably works out to about .20 per hour.

But, never say die - I'm in this for the long haul and still have a lot to learn about marketing and driving traffic to my site (and trying to make some money).

Stay tuned for the next chapter and hopefully we will all have learned something useful.

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ONLINE MONEY - PART 2

In 1982, I decided to become adept at Morse Code. I can't even remember why now. So I went to the local Heathkit Store (an old version of Radio Shack) in Berkeley, CA and invested in a Morse Code key kit. With a little soldering and wiring, I built a replica of a code keyto tap out Morse Code.

While at the store I noticed a newfangled piece of equipment called a "Portable Computer". The following week I returned to the store to really check out this new piece of equipment. I was both excited and mystified by the box that was the size of an old Singer sewing machine, had a 5" built-in monitor (white on black) and two 32kb floppy drives and 64k of memory.

Oh yeah, it was portable - if you call lugging around 25 pounds portable.

Here was the ultimate in computer technology - THE OSBORNE COMPUTER - with it's CPM operating system, 5 1/4 floppy drives(2), tiny monitor, tilt out keyboard and with an attached handle for carrying if you were strong enough. And it came bundled with ALL the software you could ever want or need:

WORDSTAR - Word processing software with Mail/Merge

SUPERCALC - Spreadsheet that could do math

DB - The ultimate Database

And all of the above software came with their corresponding 500 page manuals. WOW - what else could anyone need? Oh yeah, price in 1982 was a mere $1800 and believe me, that's a lot of monthly payments.

Check this out - Start operating system(CPM) in A: drive - use B: drive for data
Swap out CPM floppy for Program in A: drive - switch B: floppy for data
ETC, ETC, ETC...

After a month or so of exploring and reading the Osborne Magazine "The Portable Companion", I bought and upgraded the floppy drives from 32kb to 64kb each and even bought a modem to chat online with other Osbornites.

Anyway, to wrap this up for now - I took the "portable" computer to work and entered the Companies customer list so we could sort by name, address, zip, etc and set up the first mailing list available on computer. The Company was so impressed they spent $650 for a dot matrix printer so they could do mailing labels.

It was definitely a miracle device for the times.

This was not entered on the Osborne Portable Computer - although I still have it on the worktable and it still functions as designed.

In the next installment, I will let you know how I have wrestled with Adsense and after a week finally think I might have some idea about how it works (but not if it works)

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