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StarTrek computing.

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Not so long ago at least for me Mainframe, C=64, Fruit ][, Trs-80, MSDOS, CPM, and Unix  was all command line. When gui interfaces first came out ,users screamed bloody murder if they had to use a mouse. Now if you suggest using the command line aka keyboard, you get the same bloody murder reaction. Reminds me of the Star trek movie where Scotty tried to talk to a computer and found  that he had to use the keyboard [ faced with a 20th century computer ] Scotty : Computer! Computer? [ He's handed a mouse, and he speaks into it ] Scotty : Hello, computer. Dr. Nichols : Just use the keyboard. Scotty : Keyboard. How quaint.