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From: "Dave Park" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 3:38 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Finally a reply
One thing I think would help Quanta is to acknowledge that the internet is
a
primary form of communication - I know this seems obvious and they could
say
"we're doing it" but, c'mon, really? :) Where's the Quanta forum? Where
are
the public areas and the members only areas within it?
Just one thing to comment on this. The survey that Quanta did some years ago
showed that there were still many members who are "black box users" and had
no desire for becoming internet users. When you consider that Quanta does
have members in their 80's who are happy with the QL and at their age have
no desire to learn another computer this is reasonable.
Some years ago Tony Firshman and I helped a QL-er in his 80s with hardware
and software problems. He had no desire to go over to a PC and felt that
Tony had provided him with good computer facilities for the rest of his
life. When we started out we did not know who he was, but discovered that he
was the person that had brought a household name franchise company to the UK
and had done his spreadsheets on a QL. I have always had a healthy respect
for black box users.
This means that Quanta always has to have some paper facilities if it wants
to serve all its members. Although I agree with you that we should exploit
the internet far more I think there is a resistance among Quanta members,
even those who are subscribers to this list, to the internet replacing
paper,
Best Wishes,
Geoff
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