Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unm-cvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl-a!unm-cvax!burd From: burd@unm-cvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Re: G.B. Trudeau on User Friendliness (Correction!) Message-ID: <42@unm-cvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 16:51:31 EDT Article-I.D.: unm-cvax.42 Posted: Thu Oct 18 16:51:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 06:53:44 EDT References: <840@aecom.UUCP> <872@aecom.UUCP>, <4496@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 26 This cartoon has been on my door ever since it was printed. The entire text is: Mike: Hi. My friend here is interested in looking at some word processors. Salesman: Hard disk or flopsies? What are your storage capacity requirements? What kind of retrieval speed? How many bytes per second data transfer? Rev: I knew it. He doesn't speak English. Let's go. Mike: Hold on, Rev, don't panic. I've got a phrase book.. Excuse me, sir, do you have any user-friendly sales reps? Salesman: You mean consumer-compatible liveware? No, he's off today. Stephen D. Burd Anderson School of Management University of New Mexico