[ale] A little gripe

[Chris Fowler]

I get off on learning as much as I can.  I also love computer history.  Read "Extra Life",  it is a good book with references to the PDP.

Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Philips [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:47 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] A little gripe



Maybe I'm wrong in asking, but is technology supposed to be hard to use?
There are so many things to master in the world of computers that nobody is
master of them all. I understand your frustrations. But I'm not any smarter
than the users you are supporting when it comes to network hardware and I
don't intend to be. And there are whole professions within the computer
world where this isn't expected and isn't going to be. A more fruitful
question to ask is this one: Why hasn't the computer industry put more
effort into making network hardware simple?