"Hello. Tech support? This is Manfred von Thun. My computer is not working."
"OK, no problem, do you have a PC or a Mac?"
"Neither."
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"Neither?"
"Yes. Neither."
"Ok, what do you have, then?"
"I have a terminal which connects to the mainframe."
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"OK, I'll be right over."
Sure enough, he gets there and there's some godforsaken yellowing text-only terminal thing with a wire plugged into some weird port he'd never seen before, presumably wending its way into the bowels of the university to some long-lost, dusty piece of big iron from computing's distant past.
My mate was incredulous. "So what do you do with this, exactly?"
"I write papers, I write programs, I make web pages."
"Web pages!?"
"Yes, web pages. But I don't believe in graphics."
In spite of his protestations about GUIs, he was eventually given a brand spanking new eMac (this was around about the time he was creating Joy). Once he saw Terminal.app, he no longer seemed particularly concerned.