[Thinkpad] Computers for Daddy-O

If you have friends, relatives, pets, whatever - that either hate computers
or are sure that they "just can't learn computers" - there's a trick I've
learnt that lures 'em in nicely.

You get them a MSN/Web TV box.

It's a gateway drug to the world of real computers. It's far less
intimidating to 'em and it serves to bring them up to speed on the whole
concept of mouselike actions (in this case, placing the box over the right
spot), email, browsing and all that good stuff. The comparative simplicity
of the device and its interface get them over the fear of the complexity of
a computer.

Once they're comfortable with all that, they spend a good long while
playing around with it, emailing their old buddies, all that happy play.
Then, after a while, they start wondering why they can't open this or that
attachment, see this web site properly, do fancy word processing - all of
a sudden the person who was terrified of computers has both a desire and a
legitimate need for a computer. Not to mention some idea of what they're doing!

(Usually takes a year to eighteen months to get 'em addicted.)

Done it three times so far, each time the unwary victim has graduated to
using a computer after being certain that they could never learn to use
such a thing.

                                            Lee

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Received on Thu Mar 18 10:56:21 2004