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Subject:RE: Baseline Skillset for Technical Writers? From:"Humbird, Len - CFC" <Humbird -dot- Len -at- cfwy -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:56:58 -0800
Taking computers apart and putting them back together again is like
religion: it provides me with boundless opportunities to ask questions, of
which the answers are different for each person, they're never simple, and
are often annoying.
On the other hand, I can tell you first-hand about interrupt conflicts,
hardware upgrades, and tell you all you need to know about motherboards,
hard drives, CPUs ad power supplies. But I can also tell you that I would be
less educated in that regard, but have more of a social life if I threw my
PC in the dumpster and bought a Mac.
>| Sharon Burton-Hardin wrote:
>|
>| > The ability to take their computer apart to the boards and put the
parts
>| > back together again. Seriously. I am working on an article right now
>about
>| > the fact that for the several years (4?) I have been teaching Frame and
>| > RoboHELP, 20% of my students cannot create a directory and copy the
>contents
>| > of a floppy to the directory.
