Great work, Derek! :) --Sebastian
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Marketing] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century Datum: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:33:48 +0100 Von: Sean DALY <[email protected]> An: iaep <[email protected]>, Sugar Labs Marketing <[email protected]> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century I taught myself BASIC and then 6502 assembly language on a Commodore VIC-20 with COMPUTE! magazine back in the day. But what I really liked was the incredibly friendly little manual, such as this priceless advice for the BASIC prompt: "hit Enter a couple of times to clear it out." Any engineer would have insisted (correctly) that this was unnecessary... but that anonymous manual writer was a psychologist; s/he knew that a computing novice nervous about "harming" the machine could quickly gain confidence with that little tic. Sean. _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
