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Article #620802Re: Nostalgia
From: Bernd Felsche
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:46
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:46
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Charlie Gibbs wrote: >On 2018-02-17, Quadibloc wrote: >> Peter Flass wrote: >>> I've got an early book by James Martin on "man-computer-interfaces" (I >>> guess no women need apply) that covers such things as of the early 70s. >>> Martin has a chapter covering Sabre. >> "Human Being-Computer Interface", "Person-Computer Interface", or >> "Man/Woman- Computer Interface" would all have been longer; that it was >> understood to include everyone, not just males, though, was entirely usual >> at the time. >HCI - Human-Computer Interface >On the other hand, an IBMism from the Good Old Days is >HDI - Head-Disk Interference >(known colloquially as a head crash) Or Head-Desk Impacts -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Somewhere in Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | For every complex problem there is an X against HTML mail | answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. / \ and postings | --HL Mencken
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