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Subject:FW: what do you call it when your computer stops? From:"Delaney, Misti" <ncr02!ncr02!mdelaney -at- UCS01 -dot- ATTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 8 Sep 1995 16:39:00 -0500
From: Price, Becca
Subject: RE: what do you call it when your computer stops?
Date: Friday, September 08, 1995 3:38PM
that's the typical reaction for anyone who doesn't understand underlying
causality - when people did this about natural events, we call it magic....
Superstition: the *other* guy's religion.
-becca
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Subject: Re: what do you call it when your computer stops?
Date: Wednesday, September 06, 1995 11:52PM
>Perhaps it's the techie in me, but I never understood why some manuals
>talk about the keyboard locking up. The software is typically the part
>with bugs, not the keyboard.
That is the typical reaction of the non-technical user: He or she
does not usually grasp the difference between the symptom and the cause of a
problem,
and so refers to the symptom as the problem.
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Herman Holtz
