Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!mcnc!ncsu!fostel From: fostel@ncsu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: RE:Brain Damaged Keyboards Message-ID: <2217@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 12:44:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ncsu.2217 Posted: Tue Jun 28 12:44:09 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 09:47:26 EDT Lines: 25 Don't be so hard on the "Engineers". When's the last time YOU produced a program you were really proud of when your boss wanted it done about a week ago, using half the resources you need, and conforming to specs written by some Pig Headed Pseudo Programmer in a marketing position, using a language you thought inappropriate? The articl about the automobile tickled me because I had considered submitting an article making the exact oppisite point! I consider cars of the late 50's thru mid-late 60's to have been the finest driving machines produced. There has been a decline since that time. And I don't think it is the fault of the engineers. My old (RIP) 67 chevy was much better designed from Human engineering point of view (as well as ...) I don't like control stalks with a dozen differnt twists slide controls and I don't like digital speedometers, and I don't like idiot lights (lights for ...) and I don't like menu driver software and I dont like vertically mounted radios and and and. I do like speed controls and a variety of things that have been ADDED since the 60's. I do not buy the basic premise that as things evolve towards being more "human" they reduce the number of thing-a-ma-jigs. I think that is the thinking behind menu systems, and I find those to be very in-human (unless I am not a .... nah). ----GaryFostel----