That video is marvellous, when you compare it to today's technology and how it's used. The angsty "does it mean we'll all have to learn to type?", the female BASIC programmer working from home on her terminal with printer as a display. Great stuff.
Yeah, I'm kinda getting into these vids from the seventies and eighties.
“Introducing The Amazing Compact Disc, 1982” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8 — “You can pick it up and move around, even shake, and nothing happens”, yeah sure bud.
“Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles, 1984” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_q50tvbQm4 — the control panel is just astounding by modern standards, especially seeing as for me the control panel is a litmus test of an OS interface.
Also one of my favorite music-making tutorials is the three-part, three-hour series ‘Intro to Synthesis’ from sometime in the early 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvtBE6t48M — instead of going through all the terminology in ten minutes and one second, the guy takes his time twiddling knobs and showing what each one does.
Get an iPad, and delete all the app icons, except the couple you use every day, like iMail and Safari. (You can always access them from the Applications folder.)
Turn off all the notifications. Set the desktop background to some non-distracting solid color. Keep your data in folders, don't clutter up the desktop.
Use Pages to write things. Or, maybe just use write.as on the web, and let them handle the fiddly details like backup and web page hosting of your work.
If you have a Linux background and just want something simple (but very capable when you need it), run i3 or Sway on Alpine.
