Addendum to previous message - private corres. with ex Cow-Orkers: ...................
As I recall, I read part of chapter one, got bored, popped
in diskette-one and then typed INSTALL.
Fellow (ha ha) techie Fran lectured me, saying I should really read the book before installing it Huh? RTFM?!!
Worried that she might report back to (the big boss - her HUSBAND), I said that 'Well, I already actually read chapters 2 and 3 last night".
A week later I was easily using Windows, while Fran was still busy "studying the book".
(I think she was up to chapter 6 by then - there were about 20 chapters)
I wonder if she ever DID install Windows 3.1 after she was, umm, "retired", soon to be followed by us early 1990s outsource victims.
Actually I only read the 1st chapter...
The book came with about ten 1.44 Meg diskettes labelled "Windows 3.1"
After getting totally bored by chapter one, I just popped the 1st Windows diskette into the A: drive and typed 'install'.
18 years. Huh.
Well, perhaps Linux still has a chance with non-geeks... I hope so.
I still wouldn't recommend it to my 80+ yr-old ex-Mother-in-law! (yet)
But perhaps my ex-wife.. (heh heh)
I wish Shuttlesworth all the best.
(incidentally I also run the DDrake as a file/print server on one of my other older PCs. Works great!)
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Addendum to previous message - private corres. with ex Cow-Orkers:
...................
As I recall, I read part of chapter one, got bored, popped in diskette-one and then typed INSTALL.
Fellow (ha ha) techie Fran lectured me, saying I should really read the book before installing it
Huh? RTFM?!!
Worried that she might report back to (the big boss - her HUSBAND), I said that 'Well, I already actually read chapters 2 and 3 last night".
A week later I was easily using Windows, while Fran was still busy "studying the book".
(I think she was up to chapter 6 by then - there were about 20 chapters)
I wonder if she ever DID install Windows 3.1 after she was, umm, "retired", soon to be followed by us early 1990s outsource victims.
-Facade é www.dejavu.aqk.ca
Actually I only read the 1st chapter...
The book came with about ten 1.44 Meg diskettes labelled "Windows 3.1"
After getting totally bored by chapter one, I just popped the 1st Windows diskette into the A: drive and typed 'install'.
18 years. Huh.
Well, perhaps Linux still has a chance with non-geeks... I hope so.
I still wouldn't recommend it to my 80+ yr-old ex-Mother-in-law! (yet)
But perhaps my ex-wife.. (heh heh)
I wish Shuttlesworth all the best.
(incidentally I also run the DDrake as a file/print server on one of my other older PCs. Works great!)
-Facade