<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://710/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">no Kent<div>unless you actually taught with them (like I did)</div><div>you are merely a "memory"saur </div><div><br></div><div>:: 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</div><div>#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)</div><div><br></div><div>I still mourn the loss of Oscar the Grouch singing to me when I emptied the trash on my early mac</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 23/10/2013, at 1:46 PM, Kent Beveridge <<a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; ">OMG Mark...I remember the 'trash' 80 too! (Tandy)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; ">Way back in 'pre-teacher' days for me! (had one on my desk!!!)</div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; ">Sooo, does that mean I qualify as a dinosaur???</div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; ">Kent.</div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "> </p><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Poor Richard" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>Kent Beveridge</strong></font></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><font color="#3366ff">ICT Coordinator & Maths Teacher</font></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><font color="#3366ff"><a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a></font></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><font color="#3366ff"></font> </div></div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><hr tabindex="-1"><div id="divRpF413389" style="direction: ltr; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] on behalf of Mark [<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com">mark@vceit.com</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, 23 October 2013 1:23 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall<br></font><br></div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr">The end of paid operating systems?<div><a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/</a><br></div><div><div><br></div>(Strokes grey beard)</div><div>I remember the good ol' days when the OS came in ROM. As for EPROM... luxury!!</div><div><br></div><div>In next week's Greybeard Moment...</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">--<div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><font size="1" face="verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This sentence contains exactly threee erors.</font><br></div></div></div></div><br><br><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Click<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==" target="_blank">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to report this email as spam.</font></div></font></div></div></div><table width="625" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="507"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">St. Brigid's College</span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">97 Robinson Street, Horsham VIC 3400</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">T 03 5382 3545 F 03 5382 0757</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">ABN 72 749 438 155</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/"><span>www.stbc.vic.edu.au</span></a></span></div></td><td width="102" rowspan="2"><img src="http://library.stbc.vic.edu.au/StBCLogo.jpg" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td><span class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green; ">P</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: green; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: green; ">Please consider the environment before printing this email or attachment.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "></span></span><table width="625" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="619"><span class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: gray; ">IMPORTANT! 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