13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
3:38 p.m.
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:49 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
And perhaps you could suggest icoss for :
ADC input
User Port
System Bus (and if you dare suggest a picture of a Routemaster, I will
LART you.)
Autodialer interface
And yo away from computers for the moment, how would you, using icons,
label the 'RF gain', 'IF gain' and 'AF gain' controls of a radio?
(and
yes, at least one of my receivers has all 3 has serparate front panel
user controls)
I think we're drifting somewhat away from the point here.
The vast majority of computers made in the past, oooh maybe 25 years
perhaps, at least 20, have been intended for Joe Average Consumer to buy
and use. By "computer" I mean an actual personal computer, not embedded
controllers, washing machines that happen to be computer controlled,
VCRs or anything of the like. I mean things like the Apple Macintosh,
the Amstrad PCW8xxx and 9xxx series, and PCs.
They're not meant for people like you or I who *will* gut the thing and
trace out the connectors if we have to. They're meant for people like
my Mum, who is so non-technical that I have previously driven a 440-mile
round trip to reset a circuit breaker simply because it was quicker and
easier than trying to talk her through finding the fusebox.
AF Gain? That would be a sort of left-to-right ramp thing, as is
standard on very nearly every bit of audio consumer equipment I've ever
seen. RF and IF gain you wouldn't normally expect to see on a bit of
consumer equipment. It's perfectly OK to label highly specialised
equipment with words, because you've got a reasonable expectation that
someone who cares enough to know what they mean is using it.
It still doesn't excuse having a physically-but-not-functionally
interchangeable connector for PS/2 mice and keyboards, though. That is
where USB has a big win.
Gordon