Re: Sort of OT : advice sought to 'teach' Windows basics to technophobe


"J.A. Legris" <jalegris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tim Wescott wrote:
Tell him to buy a Mac. He's the sort of person they're there for.


Absolutely! My wife considers herself to be a "computer retard"
(actually, I think she's a from another universe where everything is
not what you would expect). She's never been able to learn Windows.
Then I got a Mac and she taught herself! Now I'm a computer retard too.
Feels great!


I remember the first time I used a MAC, when taking a course in Structured
Programming (Pascal) at the local college, in 1987. I was already adept at
MSDOS and even CP/M. But it took me a while to adjust to the graphics
windows format. What I had the hardest time with was clicking and dragging
an icon into the trash can just to remove the icon from the desktop and
close it. To me, it looked like I was deleting it. I hope they have changed
that to something more intuitive. I don't think I used the computer lab
more than a couple of times. I got a copy of Turbo Pascal for my 8086
Leading Edge and did all my homework at home. Later I switched to Turbo C,
but now I'm back to Pascal with Borland Delphi.

Paul


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