Re: GUI necessary?

["Larry D. Bolhuis" <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

> I can't think of an ATM I've used that wasn't GUI - hit this button for
> $20, this for $50, etc.

  Where do you live? I havn't seen a GUI ATM in my life and I have used them a 
couple times a week
since 1982.  Around west Michigan they have four buttons on the left and a 
10-key on the right.  The
CRT has characters only, describing the functions of the fours buttons on the 
left.

  - and the buttons are labled in Braile......

> Compare that to the first time you saw that old WordPerfect blue screen in 
>DOS...

  Hey that was simple!  You pressed ESC to go back..... Uh no that gave some 
strange "Set something
or other=' message.  Well at least you coult hit F1 for help...... um nope that 
gave some other
strange screen,  I REMEMBER NOW - You used CTL-ALT-DEL to exit! Yah that one 
worked!  Isn't
standardization wonderful!
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Larry Bolhuis         |
Arbor Solutions, Inc  | If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a 
(616) 451-2500        | windows machine had to be rebooted...... 
lbolhui@ibm.net       |   ... Wait, he already does!
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