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From: rggoebel@water.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG)
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Subject: Learning to use MacPaint
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 19:44:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 19:44:49 1985
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The other day I sat my son Kari in front of a Macintosh for the first time,
and ran MacPaint.  My son had never seen a bit map screen or a mouse, but
within half an hour he was adept at picking menu items, using the pull-down
menus, cutting, filling, and erasing.   I was relating this story to a colleaguethe following day, and someone overhearing the conversation proclaimed that
``...he must have read the documentation...''  I had to tell him that my son
is three, and couldn't read yet.

If business men marching off cliffs portrays the danger of using primitive
computing systems then perhaps a three year old learning to use
MacPaint indicates the joy of using a modern computing appliance.

Incidently, Kari had played with another computer about six months earlier.
It was an IBM PC/XT.  He reports that bitmap displays, a mouse, and the
MacPaint program provide a superior toy (at a lower price).

Randy Goebel
Logic Programming and Artificial Intelligence Group
Computer Science Department
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1
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