<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>On Jul 11, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Nathan Bahn <<a href="mailto:nathan.bahn@gmail.com">nathan.bahn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM, A. Jorge Garcia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:calcpage@aol.com"><a href="mailto:calcpage@aol.com">calcpage@aol.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> Please don't tell me it was for Lotus 1-2-3 or Wordperfect.<br>
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</div>Believe it or not, we did do a lot with BASIC, Lotus, WordStar and<br>
DBase in those days.... Well, before we had PCs, we had GIMIX (like an<br>
early Linux that ran UNIX apps on a mini computer) and dumb<br>
terminals....<br>
<br>
I remember getting Windows 2.0 on multiple floppy disks (the real<br>
floppy 5.25" disks with cardboard covers) for free at PC Expo in<br>
Manhattan in 1989?<br>
<br>
Anyone remember PCs before Windows and the Web??<br>
<br>
Anyone remember SneakerNet and PCs without hard drives or graphics???<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>A.J.G.--<br><br>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 <i>so <b>much SEXIER</b></i> than a white board -- much less paper and pencils).<br>
<br>--N.B.<br>-- <br>Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.<br>See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a></a> & <a href="http://www.openoffice.org"><a href="http://www.openoffice.org">http://www.openoffice.org</a></a> (Nathan Bahn)<br>
</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>-- </span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>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!<br><br>Regards,<br><div>A. Jorge Garcia</div><div>Applied Math & CS</div><div>Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC</div><div><a href="http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com">http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009">http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009</a></div>Sent from my iPod<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>