The term user friendly is quite common these days. To depict it, a user friendly appliance is one which is easy to use and which, often, keep giving you tips on ways to use it at every stage. This is very common with almost each and every computing device we purchase today. But this, also, was not the case some years ago. In short, early computers were not quite user friendly and some of the feed back they gave to their users were sometimes provocative.
There was a quick tempered scientist working at an early version of a PC in his laboratory. He kept keying in data and commanding the computer to give him feed back. "GIGO" was the first bit of reply the computer gave,, meaning, " Garbage In, Garbage Out". In other words, the PC was saying, "If you give me nonsense, I give you nonsense back".
The answer to the scientist's second query was, "That's dumb".
The computer's third message was a little longer but no more friendly. "How can you ask such a stupid question?"
But the last straw came when the computer answered one query with the feedback, "IDIOT!". The scientist jumped to his feet, lifted high the stool on which he had been sitting and brought it crashing smack on top of the computer!
I think we should, really, consider user friendliness when purchasing computers. Just a penny of my thought, what do you think?
There was a quick tempered scientist working at an early version of a PC in his laboratory. He kept keying in data and commanding the computer to give him feed back. "GIGO" was the first bit of reply the computer gave,, meaning, " Garbage In, Garbage Out". In other words, the PC was saying, "If you give me nonsense, I give you nonsense back".
The answer to the scientist's second query was, "That's dumb".
The computer's third message was a little longer but no more friendly. "How can you ask such a stupid question?"
But the last straw came when the computer answered one query with the feedback, "IDIOT!". The scientist jumped to his feet, lifted high the stool on which he had been sitting and brought it crashing smack on top of the computer!
I think we should, really, consider user friendliness when purchasing computers. Just a penny of my thought, what do you think?
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