[Year 12 SofDev] sofdev Digest, Vol 103, Issue 24
Robert Hind
robert at yinnar.com
Wed Oct 23 18:13:42 EST 2013
Sorry but WTF
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From: "Andrew Pate" <arps at mentonegrammar.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] sofdev Digest, Vol 103, Issue 24
> Oh to be spat at in the face. You lucky, lucky b@$t at rd$.
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> Andrew Pate
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>> 1. Re: Another brick in the software wall (Robert Hind)
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>> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:13:17 +1100
>> From: "Robert Hind" <robert at yinnar.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall
>> To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List"
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>> :-)
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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
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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
>> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall
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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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>> Robert Hind
>> Retired
>> Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From: Andrew Shortell
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>> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:27 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall
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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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>> Andrew
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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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>> Kent.
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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
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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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