On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:06 , Larry Colen wrote:
My first attempt to use a mac was back in '84 or '85. At that time, on any given day I might use four or five different keyboards: VT100, Televideo, TRS80, TRS80-model 100, etc. and Likewise several different operating systems: TRS80, CP/M, whatever was on the PDP-8, MSDOS. Every single keyboard had the backspace key in a different place. However, on every single computer, if I needed to backspace Ctrl-H worked. Then I tried to use a Mac.
I suspect that this is because everything you have mentioned was based on 1950-1970s technology. And the mindset that was and is somehow still prevalent in the world of computers that if it worked for grandpa why change it.
Apple changed it. And even old farts like me, who spent countless hours typing in hex code to get my printer to be recognized by the CP/ M my Epson PX-8, or my Apple ][+ running it's Microsoft CP/M card (and this might be the point in time at which I realized Bill Gates was in fact evil), had no problem using a Mac when they first arrived, introduced to me by Steve Wozniak in Washington DC in January, 1984. In one hour I left all that behind me, and have not looked back.
So whoever called the Mac a game changer earlier on in this thread, that's what I'm sayin'.
In the two years that I've owned this iMac, I have generated only 25 case numbers at Apple support on my 3 year extended Applecare warranty, all software related (except my damn wireless Mighty Mouse and it's un-commanded cursor jumps to the edge or corner of the screen 10 times a day, and still continues to do so) and in most cases fixed after a few minutes (after a 2 to 20 minute wait on hold) of chat with knowledgeable folks who would not recognize the names or faces of most of the people I met who worked in Cupertino back in the days of Applefest and flipping cow cursors.
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