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It’s hard to over state how much easier to learn and use Macs were back then, compared to any other computer. I used to teach computers in the early 1990s befo
by foobar1962 8y ago
It’s hard to over state how much easier to learn and use Macs were back then, compared to any other computer.
I used to teach computers in the early 1990s before Windows 3.1 was popular, and the main PC apps like Lotus 123 and WordPerfect were impossible to learn without the keyboard templates that had the key-presses printed in them you needed to do anything including edit, print and save. Each app had its own key presses and the publishers fiercely protected them to ensure competitors were NOT copying them. Then came the Mac and you learned to print in one app, you knew it for EVERY OTHER MAC APP.
At the time developers couldn’t understand why such functions (and appearance) were standardised and many considered it negatively, as in “Apple restricting my creativity and telling me what to do.”