RE: Chris' catalogue-Age and PC use

Seems a bit strange that the man chose to do a DVD presentation at all.
But I'm glad he had someone to help him out. I don't expect everyone to
embrace technology, but they should be realistic about its place in our
world. You're never too old to learn. Heck you can barely go to the
library today without having some basic knowledge about computers. I
remember years ago I had a big phobia about computers, no interest at
all. Then I read that AHS was planning to go online and I feared I'd get
left behind so I got myself one. It took several years for AHS to follow
through on its threat, but when it did, I was ready.


--
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
> I hope this works well for you, Chris!  The younger folks (under 70 or so)
> should appreciate it and have no trouble using it.  
> 
> Yesterday, Bill had to set up the church PC for a DVD presentation for one
> of our very elderly members to give a talk.  I felt so badly for the man
> because he had never used a PC and Bill was trying to explain not only how
> to operate the PC, but how to use the overhead projection system connected
> to it.   (It was so bad because the poor fellow didn't even know where to
> turn on the CPU or where to stick the DVD, much less how to use a mouse and
> forget blue-tooth technology!  We hate to see anyone's pride dashed.)  To
> say the least, the man was confused and overwhelmed.  Fortunately another
> (younger) man was there and was also going to be at the presentation, so he
> volunteered to help do the "technical stuff" so the elderly member could
> just concentrate on the talk.  There are still kind people in our world.
> 
> Blessings,
> Bonnie  (SW OH - zone 5)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
> Of Christopher P. Lindsey
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:16 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Chris' catalogue
> 
> > >I'm trying something new -- instead of sending out print catalogs 
> > >(which are expensive to ship and print, as you mention), I'm going to 
> > >send out a CD with the PDF and Acrobat Reader on it.
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Um ? A single CD that will have Acrobat for MacOS 9.x and 10.x plus 
> > all the various flavors of Windoze ? And then there's Linux folk...
> 
> Yup!
> 
> It should fit quite easily -- each version is only about 20MB.
> 
> Of course, I'm not going to distribute the Pocket PC version and stuff, but
> that's another reason why I'm going with PDF:  the ubiquity of it all.
> 
> Chris
> 
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