Well, one of the problems is in these big pictures, for example from the
school-page that take so long to download: Will people wait?

When a kind of toys-are-us-company in the Netherlands did introduce the
Commodore-64 on the market (1985?) they created a tutorial program you had
to load from tape: took at least 15 minutes. Most of the buyers where
already back to the shop to tell that their machine was broken.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hinsley [mailto:jhinsley at telinco.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 6:45 AM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: A stupid newbie question


Gary McGovern wrote:

//big snip//

> And the bandwidth
> hasn't been good enough for the times when I've used Squeakland.

If you're saying "I can't afford to stay on line long enough to play
with the Squeakland stuff", I know that feeling. But don't forget that
you can "save project to file" through the plug-in just as you can
through your "real" Squeak. You can then load it into Squeak and play to
your heart's content offline. I'm damned if I can remember where the
plugin puts those files in Windows, though.

//snipped//
> 
> I'm not trying to convert you here, but I can't think of anything simpler
> than double clicking on an icon except single clicking on one. But who am
I
> to say.

I'm no longer sure of the context of this, but if it's simply to run
Squeak, I think we've done it to death here! Of course, the drag file
onto icon stuff is natural to Mac (and Kde) users.

Cheers

John

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