[Web4lib] Re: antiquated software

[Thomas Bennett]

fwiw, Solitaire has been included since Win 1.0 beta.

Thomas


On Friday 22 June 2007 15:47, Robin wrote:
> Exactly! I was reading about Win 3.1 (before I actually got it) and saw
> that Solitaire was included specifically to help people learn mouse
> skills. I started recommending it to new users and had the same reaction
> from some of their supervisors (except that I was working for <shudder>
> an insurance company at the time, so it was "playing games on COMPANY
> time" - an even more heinous crime).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lester [mailto:dan at riverofdata.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:37 AM
> To: Robin; web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Re: antiquated software
>
>   ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>   From: Robin <rboulton at stcharleslibrary.org>
>   To: Florence <TANG_FY at Mercer.edu>, web4lib at webjunction.org
>   Received: 6/22/2007 8:43:27 AM
>   Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Re: antiquated software
>
>   >Ha! Yes, I used Hyper card for a while. Not very much real-world use,
>
> as
>
>   >I recall, but that's a good point.
>   >I believe I started the whole hypertext thing. When I was a kid I
>
> would
>
>   >look something up in the encyclopedia, then get interested in some
>
> other
>
>   >reference and pull out another volume to follow that up, then see a
>
> word
>
>   >I didn't know and get the dictionary out to look that up... and so
>
> on.
>
>   >And that was 45 years ago! :)
>
> Well, I just posted on this topic, though on a more technical angle.
>
> I'm sure many of us learned that way.  Some are oriented towards very
> structured and linear learning, others to a more "scattered approach"
> like you and me and many others here.  Those of us who
> teach/train/assist computer users, or work at the reference desk, see
> that every day.  Some want to have step by step detailed instructions on
> how to do something and have a great deal of trouble with any other mode
> of instruction.   Others want no instruction and will just "play with
> it" and learn that way.  I've had to learn over the years to be careful
> to whom I talk about colleagues "playing with something" as a learning
> style.  Some supervisors understand and accept, others don't.  Clear
> back when we were switching staff from DOS to Win3.1 I had to teach
> people to use a mouse.  Some got it intuitively, others didn't.  I
> suggested that people play solitaire a couple times to get used to
> double clicking, dragging and dropping, etc.  A couple of supervisors
> were very irate that I wa
>  s telling employees to "play games on library time".
>
> cheers
>
> dan
>
> It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you;
>   it's what you leave behind you when you go.
>
> dan at riverofdata.com
> Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA
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