[Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

Wed Oct 23 17:13:17 EST 2013

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  From: Russo, Frank R 
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  Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

  Bring back the Apple IIe I say...lol

  This is becoming like an old Monty python sketch.I remember when I used to get up half an hour before I went to sleep and lick the road clean with wet tongue !!!

  Ay you were lucky.....

  Frank Russo

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  From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Robert Hind
  Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 3:00 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

  Great to hear you youngsters arguing about being dinosaurs :-)

  The first computer I used, in about 1971, was a Fairchild Nova. Cost about $40,000 and came with 2k of, ferrite core, RAM, teletype terminal, paper tape reader and magnetic tape storage.

  First computer  I used in teaching was a TRS-80, in 1978. My own first computer was a Dick Smith System-80 which I was able to upgrade to 48k RAM.

  So I definitely claim membership of the dinosaur club

  Robert Hind
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    From: Andrew Shortell 

    To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List 

    Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:27 PM

    Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

    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

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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

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    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

    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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