The Orange County Register Computers promise to be your ultimate productivity tool - a fast task master that's as easy to use as a toaster oven.
Reality is another matter.
Just figuring out where to find the answers to your questions in a software manual can eat up hours. And if you don't take the time, you can do unspeakable things with your data or the resume you slaved over for hours. The nightmare doesn't end at your keyboard. Telephones, pagers and answering machines are all getting more complicated. Memorizing all the new features and actually finding ways to use them can be, well, challenging.