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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to SEAN DENNIS on Saturday, January 15, 2022 10:27:00
    I think it's because the average computer user wasn't as educated in using a computer and took the "any key" literally ... looking for a key labeled "any". <G>

    Some people are afraid of touching the wrong key and causing something bad
    to happen, too. So, too much choice in what they can touch makes the
    anxious. :)

    Mike


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  • From Dennis Katsonis@3:633/384 to Mike Powell on Sunday, January 16, 2022 10:19:00
    Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

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    I think it's because the average computer user wasn't as educated in using a computer and took the "any key" literally ... looking for a key labeled "any". <G>

    Some people are afraid of touching the wrong key and causing something
    bad to happen, too. So, too much choice in what they can touch makes
    the anxious. :)

    Mike


    To think that I was like that once. Once in schooled a friend and I worked up tje courage to press the "Apple Key" on an Aplle IIe that we were using.

    Nothing happened.



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