Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <8eqfot$q14$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul 
Schlyter) wrote:

>  
> This is comp.sys.apple2 -- how did you use your Apple II if you never
> used its command line?

Wrote a lot of menu programs.

> Anyway:
>  
> If you learn to use a command line, you can avoid a "mouse arm",
> i.e. an arm which hurts a lot, due to excessive stress from a lot
> of mouse movements.

I use a trackball...doesn't cause me problems.

> But I guess we come from different generations.  When I first learnt
> to use a computer, there were no GUI's.  So I had three options:
>  
> 1. Learn to use the command line on an interactive terminal
> 2. Learn to punch cards and submit batch jobs
> 3. Forget about computers
>  
> 3. was out of the question -- I ended up learning both 1. and 2.

Well, I did use command line systems at college.  And I seem to 
vaguely remember what I was taught about punch cards...I don't
think they taught it too much more after I learned it.

Greg B.
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