Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 11:02

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In article <DCr96v.3LG@wombat.hanse.de>, root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd
"Bernie" Meyer) wrote:

> That is utter nonsense. You obviously have never introduced a newbie to the
> world of computers. They know TYPEWRITERS, so they sometimes even type a
> newline at the end of each line.

Even that isn't true anymore.  How many typewriter companies are still in
business?

> The curse of WYSIWIG.... Oh well, I
> got her to write her diploma thesis in LaTeX, and though I took care of
> including her graphics (the hardest part of this being Harvard Graphics for
> Windows having totally broken export filters), she managed just fine. A good
> book with a decent index helps a lot.

Are you volunteering to help any of us with LaTex problems then?
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799
                                                office: (520) 621-1815

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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
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: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 04:02:40 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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