Rob,
I know what you mean, talking about people not knowing anything about their computers. I gave my father his first computer back in 1994. He still to this day calls me up to ask how to cut and paste. I have taught him dozens of times. Each time he tells me I never taught him that before.
My father is very old school. He ran his businesses without any computers till the day he retired. He would always say, computers were not from his generation and he had no plans of ever using them.
Well, if the cable modem or the mail server ever go down, he is immediately on the phone to me. I think it is that feeling you are cut off from the world when you do not have the information available at your fingertips that the internet provides. Also, he has friends all around the world that he made when he competed in the Olympics in the 60's and 70's. He as been able to fire up the friendship again though email that just was not there with the yearly christmas card.
He is of the mindset that the computer is pure magic and something he will not understand, so he does not try to. He just wants it to work and if it does not, my phone rings seconds later.
I have seen may people out there that think exactly as my father does.
Take Care,
Richard
P.S. With that comment I thin we have successfully hijacked WCollins' thread!
