[Informatics] Danger - old computer man story

Wed Dec 30 22:14:26 AEDT 2015

You did pretty well Andrew. My second computer was a Kaypro running DOS 3
and I upgraded my machine from two floppy drives only by installing a 20MB
HDD for the new reduced price of $850.

Robert Hind
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
Retired

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From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Shortell
Sent: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 9:48 PM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Informatics] BookCrossing - Labels

you can also personally hand books over 

It is interesting that Mark never used "mark sense cards"
It was only ten years ago that I "disposed" of about 3 metres of them (that
is stacked) - that was just one program

Recently put a "spinning HDD" in the little display case at work - spinning
is so last decade 

Danger: old computer man story :  When I purchased my first mac I upgraded
teh HDD before I even walked from teh shop for just $200 (a lot of money in
1991 )
I went from 40 MB to 60 MB  yes Virginia I did write MegaByte

A year later I upgraded teh RAM for another $200  from 128KB to 512KB  (yes
KiloByte)

I am just so pleased we have moved on from those sort of prices and sizes

Andrew Shortell
Educator
CRC Melton

shortell at get2me.net (This List)
@acsbear8 (twitter)

On 30 Dec 2015, at 3:42 pm, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

Indeed Mark - and now we are also seeing cloud data being "lost" as teachers
retire and/or die, without a record of where their data lives. 

In some cases project or class data is in some secure cloud service, but
where and via what access process is not alway clear. 

In relation to the original story - if you happen to use bookcrossing, maybe
try some of the less obvious ways to hand on your books - leave them on a
bus or train, at the beach, a mountain hut, a youth hostel or homeless
shelter.

kp

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

It's ironic that while the printed book may well last longer than we will,
the metadata about it at bookcrossing.com <http://bookcrossing.com/>  will
probably be gone within a year or two.

(Waves cane in air)

We're heading for a new digital
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age> dark age, I tell you!  A
new dark age!

Try reading a 3.5" floppy disk today... even if you can find a drive to read
it, the disk is likely to be full of magnetic or physical errors. 
Now try reading a 5.25" floppy: the motherboard port is extinct and try
finding a USB interface for the drive ... well, maybe there is one
<http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html> exception.
Even a PATA hard disk is virtually inaccessible in these days of SATA ports
and drives.

And what am I supposed to do with my roomful of punchcards from 1975
containing my database of songs by Captain and Tennille about Pet Rocks?

Where was I? (Puts down cane).  Nurse? I hope there's jelly for dessert
tonight. I like jelly.

Mark

On 30 December 2015 at 14:07, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

Here is something that you can do with that old book after you have read it,
before you toss them back into the wild for others to read and enjoy. Label
it with a unique BookCrossing ID to track http://www.bookcrossing.com
<http://www.bookcrossing.com/>  via @arran4

Regards Roland

http://www.bookcrossing.com/labels

BookCrossing - Labels

Labelling your books with a unique BookCrossing ID number (BCID) is vital to
successful BookCrossing. The BCID you get for each book you register here
will stay with the book for the rest of its natural life, which of course is
probably longer than you or any of us will live. Anytime during that long,
long future ahead of us that someone reads the book, then comes to
www.bookcrossing.com <http://www.bookcrossing.com/>  and enters that BCID,
they will be able to see the complete journal history of the book and make a
new journal entry of their own. Cool, huh?

-- 

Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com

http://vceit.com <http://vceit.com/> 

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Dr Ken Price MACS CP ACCE Professional Associate.
President, TASITE http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au
<http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au/> 
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