[MargaretR]

I described myself as a luddite when I had to use a computer at work.
This was due to the draconian way they were set up to ensure security and constant use.

A plastic ID card had to be inserted to identify the user. If you lost one or left one in a machine they brought in the Spanish Inquisition. The only way to ensure you never did that , was to have the card on a long chain round your neck -
so you were in effect chained to the thing when using it.

The bleep----- which was a warning of imminent 'time out'. There was never time to lean back and have a serious look at what was on the screen, because it was set to expect the keyboard to be in use constantly. It beeped if you didn't - then threw you off the system soon after -- Spanish Inquisition called in again.

I got a pc of my own a few years after retirement and remember telling my ex boss that I wasn't a reincarnated Luddite after all -- because I had got one that doesn't bleep at me.