Re: GUI necessary?

["Jeff Carey" <jcarey@xxxxxxxxx>]

The one's I use usually have four buttons on the right and left and a
keypad.  I press the button next to the box (OK, sometimes a word with an
arrow - but that's still rudimentary graphics) - that's a primitive GUI.




"Larry D. Bolhuis" <lbolhui@ibm.net> on 12/02/98 09:20:26 PM

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> 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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