Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:39:41 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Button, button; was: Re: Welcome to the future!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> dicconf at radix.net 06/05/07 12:34 PM >>>
>
>On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> Actually, it was something of a rustbucket.  My parents bought it
>> newish, had in storage when we went to Korea, got it out of
>storage when
>> we came statreside and settled in No Va.  My father was constantly
>> replacing bits of the body as it rusted.
>>
>> Oh... the transmission was, are you ready? ... push buttons on the
>> dash.  Really ...  see:
>> http://www.plymouthcentral.com/57PlymouthOptions.html
>
>So it was futuristic to some extent.  My minivan has pushbutton
>lights, rear window wiper and washer, and some other incidental
>controls.  The car I rented in Scotland for WorldCon had a huge
>pushbutton to start and stop the engine.

When the JHU Press went from Windows 95 to XP one of the folks here
couldn't figure out how to turn off their computer.  There was a "Start"
button to click, but no "Off" button to click.

mjw