Switched-on seniors.(Life - Money)

Byline: JENNIFER GISH Staff Writer

Katie Quinn turns the computer on its side so her class can see. She's taken off the cover, exposing the innards, and the dozen students stare intently as she shows them where to find the USB port.

It's where printers, scanners and other devices can be plugged into the computer.

But for this mostly silver-haired bunch gathered in the computer lab of the Albany Public Library's main branch, the questions are a bit more basic.

"I watch the Home Shopping Channel. When they say something about burning DVDs, what does that mean?"

"What's a monitor?"

Quinn, a reference librarian and the computer center coordinator, answers …