On 15/04/2011 11:55 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Then again, back in the 1980s, how many home users had experience of
> computers?
>

All of them or they wouldn't be users :-P

Most people I knew who bought a home computer then had experience of 
them from work.
A question I was often asked was "Why do you want an computer and what 
can you do with it?"

> Today, if you buy a new PC, you don't get a manual at all.

Every laptop I have bought has come with either a CD/DVD manual or a 
manual installed on the HDD.

> Then again,
> it doesn't [usually] come with any software. Or if it does, it's just a
> copy of Windows. Windows sometimes has a small pamphlet to tell you how
> to work a mouse, and that's about it.

You don't get a manual with a toaster or an electric kettle and that's 
what home computers are now a days, white goods.
Outside of this group* I don't know anyone who uses a computer at home 
for anything other than email, Skype, browsing the internet or 
downloading books, films, music, or porn.


* And we are special (I know because I went to a special school) ;-)

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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