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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
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Date: 26 Jun 91 13:55:27 GMT
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smt@ (Stephen "Completely Broken Return Address" Taylor) writes:
> 	My first encounter with an Atari ST confused me completely - I put the
> disk in, and saw the pointer turn into some kind of insect. I assumed we had
> a disk error and this was a"bug" icon.

Eh?  You assumed that the machine wasn't going to give you any error message,
it was just going to turn the mouse pointer a different shape?
Isn't that rather a peculiar assumption?  And couldn't you see the disk light
still working?

Anyway, it's all a bit academic;  Digital Research later changed the "busy"
mouse pointer to an hourglass.

And besides, what does this have to do with icons?


mathew