From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

It was equally bad having people guess things. "I'll switch this dip
here and that there, and then those jumpers that I just dropped and have no
clue about where they should go... I'll just make a neat row of them here,
that'll do it". I remember a lot of hardware having huge manuals for
just configuring the stupid dip switches and whatnots, and that it was
possible to fry things by misconfiguring them. No thanks to that -
nowadays, at least you don't have to get your hands dirty to break your
computer 


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44938e6a$2{at}w3.nls.net... I kind of prefer the days when computers
didn't "guess" at things. We used to have a saying
"computers don't make mistakes" but all that changed now..

Geo.
  "Rich"  wrote in message news:4493558b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     You don't expect a mainframe to automatically detect any off the shelf
adapter that is plugged in.  The PC could go back to the dark ages too as
this is how things used to be when the PC first came to be.

  Rich

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