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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
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Subject: Re: 2 button mouse
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Date: 12 Mar 88 11:25:34 GMT
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>Here you have a very good point.  Having taught people with very little
>computer experience...every little nuance is a major learning experience.
>Still a two button mouse could have it's uses.
>Again say a two button mouse had the second key as help?  Whenever the
>the person was lost they could hit the second key.
>  
     In my job as Mac Consultant at Tech when i've had to explain the
use of the mac to newcomers they tend to become clicking maniacs clicking
several times everywhere dragging things around etc. when they're only 
trying to throw something away. (dragging a file to the trash).
 If the second button was there it would be continually pressed overwhelming
them with help screens. (This happens to me actually, I keep hiting the help
key on my way to backspace in MS word. It's really annoying)
 Nice try, but no cigar. One button per hand.
>  
># do.  But a computer neophyte would find Emacs completely overwhelming.
># Everywhere I've been where Emacs is used, I've seen lots of Emacs
># wallcharts pasted above terminals.  Apple didn't want people to have
># to post MacWrite wallcharts.
>and yet what we gain in simplicity...somehow we lose in power.  Imagine
>a MacWrite with levels of power.  So you understand the basic functions
>you then can migrate to the second level. and so on ...i'm not sure this
>is the answer but it gives you a pause to think about doing such things .
>differently.

  MS-Word does this. One problem is that in bozo mode there isn't a 
horizontal scroll bar, however you can still type beyond the right margin.
The document will scroll automatically to that point, then stick there so
the neophyte can't get back. Then they come ask me for help, I turn on 
full menus, and they think I'm a god. (What!!? Those are menus on the top
 Wow! -True story)
Best Bozo Story -From the PC: I get a call from someone who says "I can;t
find the any-key." me:"what any key" Them:"well I was formatting a disk and
it said hit any key...." Me: "gurgle"

 Pierce wetter
    -The God of Mac Consulting
Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but
nothing of interest is easy.

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