Vinyl belts. Thanks for the memory, Mine was legal, but all the same.
Posted By: LOL on 2006-11-26
In Reply to: I think that is fair -- it is only 80 minutes in a day. - sm
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I did legal transcription using the old vinyl belts. A LONG time ago. LOL
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In the "old days" of dictation on vinyl belts, the quota was do to 15 minutes an hour. sm
To me, it seems realistic, but then again, each situation is different. On account I know, I can usually do 30 minutes an hour, although being money-oriented and paid by the line, I usually gauge things by lines. I do 250-300 lph, but those little dinky reports ARE an irritation -- no argument there -- hardly enter the header info and *poof* the dictation is over. Would be hard to make a decent line count that way.
But ... surely your employers understand there are variations on such things. Maybe you average 8.9 one month and 12 the next ... I would think it would even out.
Anyway, i'm into that gray zone where I know nothing about, but I wish you good luck. To me, in the days when I was supervisor, if I knew someone was doing the best they could do, that was all that mattered to me.
I have a newer computer, 1000 RAM memory? Will it allow more if I get more memory?
i have a newer computer 1000 RAM. Will it allow more if I get more memory? You can email me if you want. TX
A lot of legal transcription and legal jobs in
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belts
Same here. Then went to IBM MTST (sort of like a computer. It was huge and had a desk of its own. I could not even use one now if it existed. To me, it went down when the big companies tried to take over more and more hospitals. When the small companies or individuals had it things were much better. Also they were on tapes. I used to drive up to 120 miles for one hospital to pick up overflow. Yes, I would love to go back! Even then you never knew when you would have work or some one would undercut you, but it was better.
LOL. Used those belts in 1978. sm
IBM Selectric III and everyone fighting over corrective tape. One PDR, Dorland's, and Sloane's Medical Word Book for the whole office. No such thing as school and a wide variety of medical terminology books.
I started in the 60s, before belts even. SM
We used wax records and had a press to smooth out the grooves and reuse them. The stat machine was down at the switchboard and we used to walk down and get our records a couple of times a day. We were using Royal typewriters, four carbons, all different colors with carbon paper and different colored liquid paper. We had two reference books, Dorlands and a red surgical book, which I still have somewhere.
I remember the belts. Dictation was clearer on those than sm
the cell phone and/or digital garbage available today.
I'd have loved tapes when I started...we used belts! nm
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Belts, then regular cassette tapes...
then mini, then micro...an IBM Selectric then magnetic cards, then magnetic tapes...those were the days! 
My first job out of high school, we had those belts. That was in 1964. Whoa!!
Ceramic vs vinyl
A big NO to the vinyl. It buckles, peels and lifts off the cement underneath if it gets too wet...especially where the cove basing (under the sink cabinets) meets the floor.
If you can afford it, definitely go for ceramic. Last a long, long time, looks much better but be prepared to be diligent about cleaning the grout between the tiles...if you ignore it for too long, it will darken.
Vinyl stickers
I purchased some vinyl stickers from GoldViolin for $10.00 . They are the best I have found, although they will wear too, so I buy 2 sets at a time. Hope this helps.
Geeze, I remember the wax belts, and the red surgical book that was waxy, too! nm
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Thanks everyone, now that I look more at the floor, its a vinyl I guess -sm
so linoleum was probably the wrong way to describe it. Just hoping I can clean it so in the future whenever we sell (in a few years) we won't have to put in a new floor....will use tile next time though so I don't have this same problem. Another alternative is to cover the whole floor with the rugs and make it one uniform stain (then no one would know!).
The Armstrong stuff is for vinyl...
You can find it at Home Depot or Lowes near the cleaners and such. and it worked beautifully on my vinyl. It wasn't real expensive either. Its a two step thing, one strips and the other puts a new gloss on it. Try it....it will probably work.
ceramic tile or vinyl
Hi; when we bought our house it had carpet in the bathrooms, dining room and kitchen (even UNDER the stove!!). Couldn't wait to get it out of those places. We did go with Pergo in the dining room and kitchen, and it has done very well; however, there are no children in our home so there is less wear and tear on it. We have had it about 5-6 years and it is holding up very well. Just thought I'd share my experience with it :)
I would go with vinyl. We have tile now and I think it killed my dog. -sm
She slipped and fell on it when she slopped her water. I almost did too. She could hardly move. I think she might have broken some ribs. At the least they had to be bruised. It was actually my husband's cousin's dog so he took her to the vet and they put her to sleep on me. The vet said she was in severe pain. She was my little buddy. I never had an animal that loved me so much. (And I've always been a cat person.)
Tile is very slippery, hard, and cold too. I found the vinyl a lot easier to clean. Our tile is a mess. It cracked, the grout is dirty even though it was sealed. It's mostly because of the dogs that it's so yucked up. I can't stand going over by the front wall. It's soooo cold there, but I'm really intolerant to cold.
Our vinyl lasted a lot longer and was more comfortable than the tile. Not to mention, we had to cut all the doors besides.
ceramic tile/vinyl
I have had ceramic tile in my kitchen and also vinyl. Ceramic does clean much easier, looks nicer, but it is very slippery when wet, can cause a concussion if you fall on a wet floor or that, and if you drop anything, boy does that object shatter. I like vinyl better, harder to keep clean but with the new vinyl floors now they are beautiful. I would choose vinyl over ceramic, but that is just my opinion.
Vinyl sticky letters...sm
www.goldviolin.com sells sticky Vinyl letters. I have bought many, many sets and always keep one on hand. They are also very large letters, for those of us with failing eyesight. Lol
OMG I did too!!! Remember the raunchy equipment and "blue belts". People these days should
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DH and I had vinyl lettering done up for our car windows this year.
Mine says, "Keep Christ in CHRISTMAS." His says, "What do you mean Happy Holidays? How would you like it if your birthday was taken away?"
Yes, the school holiday programs today were lame. Happy Holidays, Jingle Bell Rock, African Kwanzaa song, Hanukkah song, but absolutely not a darn thing referring to Jesus Christ, Noel, angels, or anything "religious." There wasn't one African or Jewish person in the entire auditorium either. But what I want to know is this. If Christmas is too religious to be in school, why aren't Kwanzaa and Hanukkah too religious to be in school?
I have vinyl but I think ceramic tile looks nicer.
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Vinyl stickers with very large letters...sm
work really well, I ordered them from Gold Violin.com. I believe they were $9.00. I don't look at my keys, but it just bugs me when there are no letters on my keys.
Although no letters means nobody else will get on my puter.
I need to do the same, need some small vinyl WHITE letters though - sm
husband complains when he has to print out his work schedule (no printer on his laptop) and has to use mine to get to his work website but missing the E, D, S, C, N, L, and my < and > ---drives him nuts...so guess who gets to get the schedule for him! One of these days I will get some letters, tried Liquid Paper but was uncomfortable on the fingers and wore off fast too.
POLL: Off subject - Ceramic tile or vinyl
 I recenly bought a big house that has carpet in the kitchen. I want to take the carpet out but don't know if I should go for ceramic tile or vinyl flooring. Any suggestions?
We have a gunite pool as opposed to vinyl/sand liner..
The gunite is definitely more expensive, but lasts much longer. I'm in NH and I see signs for gunite pools starting at 19,900 around here, but I have no idea what that includes. As usual, the advertisement and the actual cost out the door are probably too different things. Also, expect your electric bill to hit the roof even if you run the filter only 12 hrs out of 24. But it's worth it to us... Our kids are pre-teens and virtually LIVE in that thing, so we don't regret buying this house.
for your memory
of "when the dictators were educated and spoke intelligently" Boy did I need that laugh this morning
another memory aid for <>
an alligator -
which is notoriously hungry - always wants to eat the larger number.
3 < 8 Alligator wants to eat the 8, so 3 is less than 8
5 > 2 Alligator wants to eat the 5, so 5 is greater than 2
Going by memory, isn't it
#1 (repeat the 1 as necessary) and #2 (repeat the 2 as necessary) for speed, and maybe #7 and #8 to adjust your backup or something?
You might need more memory especially as you keep
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From memory...sm
you have to find the support.dot doc on Microsoft's site. That gives you the way to back up, as well as restore your autocorrect entries. Hope that helps.
memory
2 G on my laptop and 1 G on my desktop
Not enough memory....nm
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ROFL! Thanks for the memory.
It was horrible at my last job. The supervisor told us to never, ever touch the thermostat. She'd sit in her office with a heating vent and get too hot, so she'd turn the heat down. My cubicle was by the windows in the winter with subzero temperatures. I was so cold that I had on my winter coat, gloves and a blanket. Then in the summertime, it was too hot with the sun reflecting through the windows. I used to climb up on my desk and change the thermostat anyway. I loved ticking that woman off because she was such a shrew. She was firing any employee who had more than 10 years of service because they were making too much money. She could hire college grads with more technical skills at lower wages. So much for not discriminating against people for their age. The things she wrote them up for were asinine.
well, he did say he has diminished memory!
that's a memory buster
Off topic, but cute.
This was around the late 1980s ... my oldest was around 8 or 9 years of age. My parents, (now ex-) husband, and I were playing Trivial Pursuit. It was the Entertainment category. My daughter wanted to read the next question (about the TV show "Bonanza") and instead of saying Virginia she said vagina.
Pause and then four adults became unglued. And my daughter is just sitting there looking totally baffled ("What'd I say?)
"I'll explain it in about 10 years, sweetheart."
and if you don't have a good memory?
how will you remember all of these abbreviations?
SmarType, Instant Text, Shorthand, ShortCut, and so forth all require some sort of memory retention. That's a fact. And using the Keystrokes book (which I have) doesn't help either. You can use all of the systems you want (including the abcz system), but when you're dealing with overlapping phrases that use the same letters, it STILL boils down to remembering things.
If your memory is not good, you're up that well-known creek.
You can upgrade memory. 512 RAM is
better, 256 would be sufficient though. In the car you would use the foot pedal same as at home. Put it on the floorboard and push or use hot keys. If you are going to travel and work would need alternative ways to download - cell phone, WiFi, dial-up, etc. I download before I go and use my cell phone to upload if I'm not somewhere where I have another option when I need to send in work. You can use the laptop keyboard or figure a way to use an external keyboard depending on how much space you have.
Can anyone refresh my memory....
in Windows XP, how can I see what programs are running automatically on startup? I should know this, but for some reason my brain is not cooperating!
TIA!!
I don't think it will. But I can't say for sure. If memory serves, you can't have both pr
running simultaneously and switch back and forth, the pedal won't work or it will only work with one but not the other. However, if you've configured your pedal in both programs, then it should work with each program separately.
Re: Memory problems
Even though you're only 39 it could hormonal. My doctor told me the eary stages of menopause can start in your late 30's and does affect your memory.
Memory problems...
In the last year or so, I have noticed I am having problems with my short-term memory. Not just the usual walking into a room and wondering, "Now, why did I come in here?" although I do that, too. My work space is in my basement and unless I write something down as soon as I think of it, by the time I walk up the stairs, it's gone. I was at my GYN this spring and told her about it. She tested my blood sugar and did a thyroid panel and they were fine. I just turned 39, so I feel like I am too young for this. I have no trouble remembering medical terms for work or with remembering things from years ago, it's just the day-to-day stuff that I feel I should be able to remember and just can't. My husband just laughs but I am so frustrated! 
The memory showing says up to on
all of them, which means that is the maximum you can have, but you customize. You can pick the cheapest one, but by the time you customize it, it can be $200 to $300 more. I looked at them all and the processor speed is not that fast. Depending on what programs you use it may be too slow. I would get one with a faster processor speed. You may also want to get a laptop with XP instead of Vista since there are still so many bugs with it.
If memory serves
it'll be about $50 to $60 a month. When I changed my phone to business, I also had to upgrade my internet as I have internet through AT&T. If you have internet through another provider then you might not need to do that.
The eScription might use a lot of memory. Might need to
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please refresh my memory
on how to get that foot pedal screen....i can't remember!
Don't you have a good memory!
I loved the Mirra trial chair--it was lumped out with all the bells and whistles, lots of places to fine tune things, and it has the best lumbar support of the two chairs. The only thing I didn't care for was the seat was too small. It confined my butt too much and so I felt a little cramped in it. But, again, I'm 5' 10" and weigh 220 pounds, so I'm more of the size of a dude, maybe even bigger.
I've been sitting in the Aeron chair for just about a week now and it is so much more comfortable...for me. My husband also likes the Aeron better, as he is stuck trying the Mirra this week and he wants the Aeron back.
The only bummer is I can't really compare apples to apples, as the Mirra demo model is fully lumped out as you can get with custom ordering from that line. The Aeron demo that we have is the stripped down version, the cheapest you can get from that line.
But as it stands right now, if I had to pick one, it would be the Aeron, even if it is the stripped down model. Also, the plastic back on the Mirra demo chair is all cracked and actually broken down the middle, as if it really can't withstand rigorous use or constantly leaning back in it. (see picture for close up) The fella couldn't tell us how long it has been in use as a demo chair. It looks about 10 years old at least...pukey green sort of color. The adjustable arms on the Mirra, they not only go up and down but flair out or in...well they are super touchy and don't lock in that side to side position, so if you push off the arms to get up out of the chair, they will click open and make you feel unstable as you are getting up out of the chair. Not a big deal at all, but it would be nice if they locked.
So yeah, final vote from both of us is for the Aeron. We are trying to get a demo of the Cella chair but they don't think they have one available.
Sounds like you need more memory n/m
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Sometimes memory sticks can go bad. You may have
a couple sticks of RAM. Check your RAM usage.
storage vs memory
I think you have a basic lack of understanding of the difference between these two. Storing information won't slow down your computer unless you are constantly accessing it & your disk is really fragmented, & even then the difference might not be noticeable. Speed has to do with memory & processor speed, & photos or files stored on your computer don't have anything to do with this. Otherwise why would hard drives be equipped to handle 250, 500, 1000 GB (or more) of information? Processor speeds and amount of RAM have not increased proportionately. It's the RAM & processor speed you should be thinking about, not how many photos or videos you have. Memory is easy to add. Go to crucial.com.
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