Re: Windows Rant

On Jul 11, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <calcpage@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please don't tell me it was for Lotus 1-2-3 or Wordperfect.

Believe it or not, we did do a lot with BASIC, Lotus, WordStar and
DBase in those days.... Well, before we had PCs, we had GIMIX (like an
early Linux that ran UNIX apps on a mini computer) and dumb
terminals....

I remember getting Windows 2.0 on multiple floppy disks (the real
floppy 5.25" disks with cardboard covers) for free at PC Expo in
Manhattan in 1989?

Anyone remember PCs before Windows and the Web??

Anyone remember SneakerNet and PCs without hard drives or graphics???

Regards,
A. Jorge Garcia
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009

Teacher & Professor
Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College



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A.J.G.--

I remember in the early-to-mid-80s the PTA for my elementary school decided that the school needed to get with the times, and so they bought at least one computer a year for the school; the first one -- if I recall correctly -- was a Commodore 64 and the next year it was a PET (With a tape drive! It would take forever to load the game "Oregon Trail".). The teachers, as far as I know, were never trained on their uses; and why would they have been? There were only so many computers to go around the whole school; the PTA, I believe, would have gotten a bigger bang for the buck with school supplies (but of course, a computer is so much SEXIER than a white board -- much less paper and pencils).

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OMG I almost forgot about the Commodore 64 and 128 as well as the Commodore Pet and SuperPet! I remember teaching Pascal on one of those the first year I taught AP Computer Science in 1984? Soon after we started seeing the first Apple, Apple II, Apple IIe and Mac. I guess that's what's called a Mac Classic now-a-days!

Regards,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
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