Re: GUI

PaulMmn wrote:

> I have a (well, many) personal opinion (which I'll share):  a green screen
> is more useful for heads-down, pound-the-keys data entry than a GUI.  GUIs
> are more useful in a onesy-twosy mode, or for graphics.

I had an interesting one yesterday.  Just got a cellphone Friday and
went in yesterday to pay some $$ on it (forgot the checkbook Friday, but
they let me have the phone anyway).  I sat down at this guys desk (a
sales weasel) while he entered my payment.

It was a PC, but the screen was obviously a 5250 emulation green
screen.  So I said "You guys have an AS/400?"  He said yes, but that he
didn't like it.  I asked him why and he said (and I quote):  "It just
seems old."  So I piped up and asked if it was because it wasn't a
"gooey" interface.  He didn't know what I meant so I explained it to
him.  He decided that must be it.

Then I told him I was MIS manager of an AS/400 shop and I had a very
definite reason I really liked the AS/400.  It never went down.  He
decided that was a good plus. <g>

The other point here was that he traversed these green screens far
faster with the keyboard than he could have done with a mouse.

-- 
-Jeff

jlcrosby@fwi.com
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