[Trac #1309] kids learning to read like labels, but there are few

[Jim Gettys]

It might be economically feasible to drop a piece of paper in the box on
top of the power supplies and batteries with such directions.
                               - Jim


On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 08:24 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> > also i came up with an idea called wrapping paper instructions which
> never got deployed
> 
> I think NeXT may have picked up on that idea at one point. Or maybe it
> was IBM. I remember a machine that as it came out of the box, it
> showed you how to get started. Really brilliant. But we are not going
> to individually package machines: to expensive both in $s and
> environmentally. 
> 
> -walter
> 
> On 4/14/07, Ted Selker <selker at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>         
>         YEP,  i tried to get rid of the book and irq setting the lpt1
>         grids of buttons.... i can't find our " best ideas" here is an
>         early crappy image or two,,,, 
>         
>         ea 
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         here is how we deployed it (still has problems 
>         
>         
>         also i came up with an idea called wrapping paper instructions
>         which never got deployed: no text 
>         it showed how to open the laptop, put in the battery,use  the
>         "ultrabay, remove the disk, open the keyboard to get to stuff,
>         turn on the computer , plug in the computer, and use the
>         notebook latches. 
>         
>         
>         Don Hopkins
>         <dhopkins at DonHopkins.com> 
>         
>         04/08/2007 11:51 PM
>         
>         
>                      To
>         Bert
>         Freudenberg
>         <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>                      cc
>         devel at laptop.org, Ted Selker <selker at media.mit.edu>
>                 Subject
>         Re: [Trac
>         #1309] kids
>         learning to
>         read like
>         labels, but
>         there are few
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         The virtual laptop sounds like a program that came with my old
>         90 mhz Thinkpad -- I think Ted Selker worked on it. It had a
>         photorealistic virtual view of the laptop that you could turn
>         around in different directions to see the various parts
>         labeled, and it was integrated with documentation and status
>         displays and control panels related to all the gadgets and
>         interface plugs. For example, you could bring up the volume
>         control panel by clicking on the speaker, and stuff like
>         that! 
>         
>            -Don
>         
>         
>         Bert Freudenberg wrote:  
>         Well, Albert still got a point here. How about having a
>         virtual  
>         laptop? Something with a lot of labels and explanations that
>         you can  
>         take apart (and reassemble with just a button click)?
>         
>         - Bert -
>         
>         On Apr 8, 2007, at 17:03 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:
>         
>           
>         #1309: kids learning to read like labels, but there are few
>         --------------------------- 
>         +------------------------------------------------
>         Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |        Owner:  mlj
>             Type:  defect         |       Status:  closed
>         Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:  Untriaged
>         Component:  design         |   Resolution:  wontfix
>         Keywords:                 |
>         --------------------------- 
>         +------------------------------------------------
>         Changes (by jg):
>         
>          * status:  new => closed
>          * resolution:  => wontfix
>         
>         Comment:
>         
>         Heh.  Do you know how many languages are used in Pakistan,
>         alone?
>         Labeling the hardware is insane.
>         
>         Go to ethnologue.org.
>         http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp? 
>         name=PK
>         
>         Albert, please apply brain, before inserting foot....
>         
>         -- 
>         Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1309#comment:3>
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> Walter Bender
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