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To: Mephisto who wrote (13304)1/10/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Lynn  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
As you quoted from JDN's of this morning: "TOO DAMN COMPLICATED for the average person to understand a PC."

Definitely, especially people who did not grow up with computers [so to speak] who are buying their first PC right now.

I have been talking quite a bit with my parents lately about their friends who have bought PC's and are having a lot of trouble using them. To avoid this, my father signed-up for a computer course at the local senior citizens center. He said it was a joke--they learned how to turn the PC on and off and that was about it.

Convinced he would be buying something he would not get any use out of [given the experience of his and my mother's friends], he next took an introductory computer course at the local community college. This was last semester and he just got his PC December 31.

How much is he using it after taking a college course? Well, yesterday when I asked, he said he was *still* studying the manuals and getting familiar with the machine. I had asked because when I go down to visit this week, I was going to get him set up with an IP. He says he's not ready yet.

My father is **much** brighter than the average person and he's not nearly as advanced as I would have expected him to be by now. If he finds it complicated, the average person is going to be blown away.

Lynn
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