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Subject:FW: Attacking the manual! From:"Porrello, Leonard" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- TANDEM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:56:06 -0500
> A point that is lost on my 3 year old (no pun intended), who is unfamiliar
> with pen technology. The idea "it's so intuitive it doesn't need a manual"
> is a myth. And even if such a thing exists in culture A, chances are that
> it will not it culture B.
>
> Leonard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John David Hickey
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 10:25 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Attacking the manual!
>
> (this pen writes best on paper. Don't stick it in your eye).
>
>
