[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...

[Joe Blais]

That reminds me of when I bought my first segate hard drive -- the envy of
the department -- half height, rll encoding, 20mb, $800.  For my Heathkit
with 640k of memory (IBM only had 512k)!  I depreciated it for 2 years. -- I
may still have the source for MS-DOS 2.11 (but no 5-1/4 floppy to read it!).
  -- that's why I use the windows virtual PC with windows on it...
They say the first thing to go is your memory, ... I keep forgetting what
the next thing is....
Now, in my 3rd life, I'm learning Linux...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Earl
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:44 AM
> To: tfug at tfug.org
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...
>
>
> OK, here is my experience with older people, being one myself.
>
> 1) get on the internet and get and write e-mail when they want to.
>
> 2) don't reconfigure anything, EVER!!!
>
> 3) see and print and forward pictures of their Grandchildren.
>
> 4) chat with and see web cam pictures of the Grandchildren on MSN.
>
> 5) NO CHANGE, EVER! This is to the point that my friend, who sells
> computers and sets them up, sometimes installs Win 98 on a new
> computer. Changing ANY program is like moving the gas pedal of the car
> to the dash and the steering wheel in the trunk.
>
> 6) touch their computer, you are responsible for it for the rest of
> their lives and yours.
>
> 7) NO CHANGE, EVER!!!!
>
> As I see it, these are the parameters you are working in.
>
> Earl
>
>
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