The Late Great Douglas Adams penned a wonderful essay in about 1989 or so about the trials and tribulations of using computers.
All I want to do is print from my portable. (Poor baby). That isn't all I want in fact. I want to be able regularly to transfer my address book and diary stacks backwards and forwards between my portable and my IIx. And all my current half-finished chapters. And anything else I'm tinkering with which is the reason why my half-finished chapters are half-finished. In other words I want my portable to appear on the desktop of my IIx. I don't want to have to do battle with cupboard monsters and then mess about with TOPS every time I want that to happen. I'll tell you all I want to have to do in order to get my portable to appear on the Desktop of my IIx.Remembering what Macs (and PCs) were like in the late 1980s, I can't imagine how anyone ever accused them of being easy to use...I just want to carry it into the same room.
Bang. There it is. It's on the Desktop.
Looking on the brighter side, it's easy to forget how good we have it today.
