[Year 12 SofDev] sofdev Digest, Vol 103, Issue 24
Andrew Pate
arp at mentonegrammar.net
Wed Oct 23 17:57:17 EST 2013
Oh to be spat at in the face. You lucky, lucky b@$t at rd$.
Andrew Pate
Mentone Grammar
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> 1. Re: Another brick in the software wall (Robert Hind)
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> From: "Robert Hind" <robert at yinnar.com>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall
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> :-)
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> Bring back the Apple IIe I say...lol
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> 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 !!!
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> Ay you were lucky.....
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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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> Great to hear you youngsters arguing about being dinosaurs :-)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> So I definitely claim membership of the dinosaur club
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> From: Andrew Shortell
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:27 PM
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> no Kent
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> unless you actually taught with them (like I did)
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> you are merely a "memory"saur
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> :: 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
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> #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)
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> I still mourn the loss of Oscar the Grouch singing to me when I emptied the trash on my early mac
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> On 23/10/2013, at 1:46 PM, Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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> OMG Mark...I remember the 'trash' 80 too! (Tandy)
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> Way back in 'pre-teacher' days for me! (had one on my desk!!!)
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> Sooo, does that mean I qualify as a dinosaur???
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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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> The end of paid operating systems?
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> http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/
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> (Strokes grey beard)
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> I remember the good ol' days when the OS came in ROM. As for EPROM... luxury!!
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> In next week's Greybeard Moment...
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> 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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