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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
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    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----