FW: PLUG: OT: ADV:ETC - Good training for mouse-challenged *nixpeople

[John Esak]

I learned Scripsit that way, too!
Man I hate to reminisce, but those were the good old days.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Bill
> Campbell
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 1:35 AM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: PLUG: OT: ADV:ETC - Good training for mouse-challenged
> *nixpeople
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005, John Esak wrote:
> >
> >Most of us *nix people don't use mouses... and we never use
> mice. Whichever
> >type you are, let's say you hate MS and XP and all things to do
> with *that*
> >platform. If the occasion comes up for you to actually use the
> system, here
> >is a way for you to learn it very easily... and learn it in a special way
> >that will keep you from ever having to use a mouse. (And, you
> will learn it
> >so much quicker than it took JP to do it grudgingly in 3 years... and he
> >still doesn't know 1/10th of what this DVD would teach him. :-)
>
> I don't know where you got the idea that *nix people hate meeses
> to pieces.
> I gave up that idea in 1992 when I got my first OpenDesktop 2.0
> system, and
> discovered how useful they are, even when 99% of my time is spent
> in xterms
> running ``vim'' or ``mutt''.  Now if you want to talk about hating the
> useless touchpads on laptops, that's another story.  That's the only thing
> that's keeping me from getting a Powerbook or iBook to replace my 6+ year
> old Thinkpad 600 (now if Tiger will run on a Thinkpad... :-).
>
> This old *nix hand is spending most of his time running a Mac
> Mini while in
> my office, and SuSE 9.2 Professional on an ancient ThinkPad 600.
>
> >I'm talking about my friend Cathy Anne Murtha's new "Immersion
> Into XP" DVD.
> >She created it in the same way that I built my filePro Survivor
> Series CD's,
> >all with movies of the information and step-by-step demonstrations. Her
> >training style is extremely polished, having probably 15 years experience
> >teaching off and on the net....
>
> Reading the rest of this e-mail reminded me that I learned Scripsit,
> Visicalc, and several other programs that Radio Shack sold 25 years ago
> from the audio tapes that came with the packages.  Perhaps Scripsit was
> less sophisticated (bloated) than the current crop of word processors, but
> it got the job done, and fit on a 640k 8in floppy with room to spare for
> reasonably large documents.  I found the audio tapes quite satisfactory.
>
> ...
> Bill
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