Screen vs Page vs Card

[Marian Petrides]

I agree...Lots of people still use index cards as flash cards. House 
officers--interns and residents--use them to keep patient data.  Index 
cards aren't quite dead yet.


On Mar 29, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Judy Perry wrote:

> Some people still use Rolodex's (I saw some at Walmart just yesterday).
>
> People still play with actual playing cards.
>
> No mindreading here...
>
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dar Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> Those who don't know something about programming cling to metaphors
>> they understand.  Those who do know insist that their metaphors apply
>> and should be obvious.
>>
>> An oscilloscope has a panel.  If I mentioned the "panel" of an
>> oscilloscope to a technician an image applies.  If I mention a "map" 
>> to
>> a certain class of security system operator, an image applies.  It is
>> the domain of the topic that drives the images and it has nothing to 
>> do
>> with whether they have any knowledge of programming.
>>
>> How does card apply?  Who today knows what a 5X3 card is?  Is it 
>> really
>> less ordered than a book?  I remember seeing a cartoon showing police
>> investigating the death of a man stabbed with a rod from a library 
>> card
>> catalog.  The officer said to the librarian, "Tell us again about what
>> happened after he dropped the drawer of cards."  In the minds of those
>> who know what an index card is, cards are ordered.
>>
>> I remember in the old days when "it should be obvious" what a file is.
>> Instead people had images of people standing in line, of file 
>> cabinets,
>> of a tool metaphor, of a folder.
>>
>> What was the first question people asked when introduced to Hypercard?
>> "Do you mean card as in a module that is plugged in, that is, like a
>> board that is plugged into a computer?"
>>
>> I read novels front to back, but I rarely read technical books that
>> way.  I don't think they any less are composed of pages.
>>
>> Never the less, I am impressed with your mind reading ability.
>>
>> Dar Scott
>>
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