[Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

[Andrew Shortell]

no Kent
unless you actually taught with them (like I did)
you are merely a "memory"saur 

:: greybeard moment #1: I used a Mac where the OS was on a floppy and the wealthy had two floppy drives so the data could be stored without removing the OS disk
#2 I recall that at my father's work they had hard drives in a room and each was in a box 1 metre high by .9 by .9  and they EACH contained 1 Megabyte of data. Enormous (then)

I still mourn the loss of Oscar the Grouch singing to me when I emptied the trash on my early mac

Andrew

Andrew Shortell
Educator
CRC Melton


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On 23/10/2013, at 1:46 PM, Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> OMG Mark...I remember the 'trash' 80 too! (Tandy)
> Way back in 'pre-teacher' days for me!  (had one on my desk!!!)
>  
> Sooo, does that mean I qualify as a dinosaur???
>  
> Kent.
>  
> Kent Beveridge
> ICT Coordinator & Maths Teacher
> kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
>  
> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Mark [mark at vceit.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 1:23 PM
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> Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall
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> The end of paid operating systems?
> http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/
> 
> (Strokes grey beard)
> I remember the good ol' days when the OS came in ROM. As for EPROM... luxury!!
> 
> In next week's Greybeard Moment...
> 
> I waggle my finger at young people and explain how my 1978 TRS-80 with 4KB of RAM (yes, kilobytes, not megabytes) only had uppercase characters to save on storage.  A full ASCII set is a senseless extravagance, I tell you!
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