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I'm reading the manifesto, and for some reason, a story I once heard, possibly apocryphal, came floating up out of my memory: a person was using their PC when
by spc476 9y ago
I'm reading the manifesto, and for some reason, a story I once heard, possibly apocryphal, came floating up out of my memory: a person was using their PC when a coworker came up asking for a copy of a spreadsheet and handed the first person a floppy disk. That person took the disk, inserted it into the PC, then launched Lotus 1-2-3, loaded the file, and then saved it to the floppy. The second person was incredulous that the first person just didn't copy the file directly from the hard drive to the floppy. The first person replied, "you can do that?"
- zerocrates 9y agoI have a family member whose standard workflow involved doing the same with Word on Windows. Save As was the only way he knew how to copy things. He's a baby boomer. I'd assume this is only more common now with peoples' main interactions with computing being in an app-focused, hidden-filesystem world.
- jacobush 9y agoYes, but this is not as bad as opening the word doc, selecting everything (with the mouse), copying it, opening a new empty doc, pasting it in there, save. This is how you copy word documents. These are pretty easy. Some other file formats are harder, like Excel sheets with tabs. Now you may be tempted to think, "people do that?!". Of course they do. If you can imagine it, someone is doing it.