SK> One of the teachers, a generation older than I, had purchased a
SK> computer
SK> quite a number of years back. She really only uses it for small
SK> word-processing tasks and for doing her grades. She was telling me
SK> how
SK> afraid of the machine she was at first, and how her heart used to
SK> beat
SK> faster when she went near it. I think she was embarrassed to admit
SK> this.
SK> She said that her husband had to write down directions for her about
SK> exactly what buttons to push and what key sequences to use just to
SK> turn
SK> on the machine and get to her gradebook program.
Sounds like a client of mine.
He has a little card next to his PC detailing step-by-step just how to
get to various things he constanly uses. He knows the computer is very
useful and has at least $7,000 in software for it, but he's
computer-illiterate.
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