[Leica] Win 95 to 98 my final word

[Frank Dernie <FrankDernie@compuserve.com>]

Peter Kotsinadelis wrote:

        

"BULLS--T!!!  Stop the labeling.  IBM PCs were not for computer illiterates
as in the early days they required a lot of tweaking to use, especially on
LANs."

Sorry Peter I did not explain myself adequately.I did not say the IBM PCs
were FOR computer illiterates, far from it, even computer specialists found
them all but useless for any of the tasks they were purchased for. I meant
they were chosen BY computer illiterates from the accounts department. In
most companies the engineers and scientists chose suitable machines for
"hard sums" the accountants chose machines suitable for file shuffling and
"easy sums". Once the PC was available the accounts dept chose them for
everybody. Believe me I am not imagining this I was one of the many who
suffered. They were RUBBISH as scientific machines. I really, really wish
they had not been but they WERE.

 "The MACs were for the novices"

It seems entirely appropriate that an office machine is easy for a non
technophile to use. Anything which needs frequent reference to a specialist
or instruction manual is badly designed, be it a computer or camera(eg EOS
1). Being difficult for a novice to use is far from creditable.

The Mac was not as good as many other machines at this time either (I
forget whether it was even available then or whether the Apple offering at
the time was the expensive Lisa), but at least it was easy to use. I did
not use one.

I stopped programming ove 10 years ago. I do not care much about these
machines anymore. I use both PC and Mac, I slightly prefer the Mac. there
is not much in it these days. Apple got the business choices wrong, the
technology right. They did not win. a lesson for us all.

Cheers Frank

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