Names of Personal Assistants of Another Era

Back in the day during the mid-1990’s in our house in Goa that was lovingly called  ‘Denizalia’, we had our very own Siri, Alexa and Google Intelligent Assistants all combined into one. She was called ‘Kamla’ - a super fast and efficient search & work mobile engine, and took commands in Hindi, Konkani and English. It was invented by none other our Mr. Freddy Barboza. He would say “Kamla, baharka light jara off kar lo please” (Kamla, please switch off the outside lights),  “Kamla, TV-ka remote control kahan hai?” (Kamla, where is the TV remote control), “Kamla, mera scooter jara saaf kar lo please” (Kamla, clean my scooter please) and so forth. And everything would get done. In Bombay (Pachim Apts.) we had several of them. Their names were Linda, Jenny, etc., full and part-time. So you see things were simpler then too. We were much ahead of our time by today’s standards. And by the way I still do have my very own dedicated P.A. too. Her name is Edna!   (TonFerns Humour - Life’s like that).