>>3752663Reminds me, I actually did the same thing back in the day.
Thing is, she never used the computer in the end. It was always someone else in the family who came to visit, helped to read her emails and pay the bills etc. and she never actually even touched the machine beyond pretending to use it while I was showing it to her.
Thing is, people past a certain age or era have a real problem with understanding that the user interface to a machine can have internal states that may be hidden. They're used to devices where one button does one thing and always that thing, and everything is visible on the panel. Select the program with one dial and turn a switch, and the washing machine goes. That's the level of complexity they can deal with. If the machine can switch internal states they're completely lost and the machine becomes alien to them. Even a dumb phone menu where you have to scroll up and down through a virtual list can be completely incomprehensible, because the device is doing something "invisible" and you have to keep track of that in your mind.
If you have that sort of a person, trying to get them to use a computer is impossible. They can only do exact routine actions that you teach them, and if it should ever fail in any way - if the internet is down for example - they're completely lost. They will hate the computer, refuse to use it, and all your efforts will be in vain.
