"Ulysses" <
uly...@whatsthat.com> wrote in message
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when I first got a computer (1998, seems like a long time ago now, and
like I've always had one) I was writing something about this and someone
said there had been a study where they found computers reacted to the
moods./feelings of the one using it.
I used to think (and maybe still do) you have to show the computer you
know what you're doing, of pretend you do. Like sit down and hit keys and
do something, in a confident way. I remember when they first were getting
popular (computers) must have been back in the dos days, being at Sears
(store) in a room with computers around for people to look at, and a little
kid sitting down and hitting keys and bring things up and doing something on
one. I also remember when our libray changed from the cardfile system to
computer (they called them terminals, set up to look things up) I thought
I'd never find anything in the library (by looking it up) again. I'd get
stuck and the librarian would come and hit a few keys and bring it up.
We have to remember who is the boss (me or this hunk of plastic, cables
and circuits)