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Article #289Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Hotel California
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 04:18
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 04:18
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In article <3vlv30INN26h@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote: > Really? Here at UBC you can get a job "babysitting" in the Mac lab. Why > is that job needed? > > I say that you need training to make _effective_ use of any system. I > mentioned this before: I've met Mac users who would use spaces for > alignment in a word processing document, type in page numbers by > hand and use repeated carriage returns to cause a page break. > That's the intuitive thing to do for an utter newbie who refuses > to read the manual. No, a newbie would see a command labeled "Insert Page Numbers" and say "gee, maybe that inserts page numbers" rather having to read a manual to see if the command even exists. And I make very effective use of my system, thank you, without the help of manuals. Besides, I thought it was DOS and Unix people who used spaces to line things up with there awful monospaced fonts. -- Hotel California hotelca@cris.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!warp.cris.com!NewsWatcher!user From: hotelca@cris.com (Hotel California) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] Date: 2 Aug 1995 04:18:07 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <hotelca-0208950026390001@192.0.2.1> References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <hotelca-3107950002570001@192.0.2.1> <3vjiof$b1s@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <hotelca-0108950349310001@192.0.2.1> <3vlv30INN26h@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc3-fddi.cris.com