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From: tim@umn-ucc.UUCP (Tim Giebelhaus)
Newsgroups: net.micro.hp
Subject: Re: HP-150 comments
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 14:19:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 14:19:33 1984
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  I disagree.  I like the tree structure.  When they dilivered our computer,
they did not give us a manual.  I could have guessed commands all day.  
With the commands in front of me, I did not have to.  Now when I want to change
something, I just press three buttons and I'm done.  The menus are quick and
relatively easy to understand.  Of course, if you have never used a menu ever
before, you may not like it.  Take some time.  Menus are really nice if quick
enough and if they make sense.
  This is in contrast to the DEC PRO system.  The thing is painfully slow.  
You can wait one or two seconds between each menu selection.  There is no
excuse for this with a hard disk and a 11/23 processor.  It was down right 
stupid of dec to think they could foist off such a product.
  I also think that chips in sockets is not the way to go.  You can be sure
that you will have to clean the sockets every year or so if you have them.
Look at the Apple.  They always go down due to those stupid sockets.  Of
course, if your chips are not reliable, you may need sockets.