Ten weeks on I take the Test.
I had learned how to operate the computer, where to find things and bring them into my work, mostly compose Letters, Envelopes, Charts, Graphs, Menus, Templates. My classmates playing with Mickey Mouse, some of the people did want to learn.
So we had a Test, we all got a blue Certificate with our name stating we had studied this course, at The College, dated and signed by the Tutor.
I spoke to my Tutor asking if I could do an advanced course, as I wanted to write my book.
I was advised to take a one year course that would be for the whole of the Publishing of Newspapers and Magazines, prepared by Royal Society of Arts, I would have to pay the whole fee in advance, attend the whole period and sit a three hour Examination by an individual Invigilator.
So I signed up to attend the four terms as a normal student.
I now needed a Computer, I went P.C. World, I had got some idea of what I was looking for as the lady who sat next to me had got used to me asking “How do you do this or that?” We had learned on Dell Computers.
She advised me to get a Packard Bell as she had one and I could borrow some of her Programmes to use as she was doing something similar.
I bought the Packard Bell Desktop full kit, 17 in Screen, a Cam recorder, Epson colour Printer, it all added up to £1.300, that was ten years ago.
Now that I was waiting for my new course to start, I needed to get my material together to put in my book.
I thought that if I chose to find out about a small Tramway in a town about 1900, I had a town in mind, I looked for all the books on that Tramway in the local library there were none, I had even visited the National Tram Museum at Crich none listed there either. So as I belonged to a Philatelic and Postcard Society, I started to buy those nearly a hundred year old Postcards, black on white well used and dog eared.
Cant wait to get stated.