Re: Jay's Power Point presentation on a 1982 //e.

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

On 08 Mar 2002 16:22:11 GMT, Obsbedia2 wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> 	The PowerPoint presentation was a blast.  There's nothing I like
> more than the sound of a room full a people sucking air in
> surprise--"Ahhh!"  The instructor really wanted to see what I had done on
> an 128K, twenty-year-old, 1982 Apple ][e and kept pushing my presentation
> to the front, while others pushed their own PowerPoints forward to "get it
> over with."  After half a dozen slide show presentations, I booted a
> text-based launcher and then Tutor-Tech (insert sound of excessive air
> intake here) 2.7 with Hybrid Flags and stacks making up a computer program.
>  (Mind you, it didn't hurt that I ran it on an FOCUS IDE hard
> drive-on-a-card and a 7x TransWarp II card to boot, but presentations
> always run slower when you're up there, so I felt it justified.)  The
> stacks could run much faster off a RAM card, but I didn't want to risk a
> crash, this being the first Apple II demonstration in the district for
> quite some time.  The presentation was flawless.
>
> 	My favorite comments from the presentation were:
>
> 1.	How did you get PowerPoint to run on an Apple II?
>
> 2.	We should tell people at our site what these computers can do.  We
> were planning on getting rid of a bunch of them.
>
> 3. Well, this is an advanced feature of PowerPoint and if you take the
> advanced class you'll learn how to do it.
>
> 4. Well, that's another advanced feature of PowerPoint and if you take the
> advanced class you'll learn how to do it.
>
> 5.  Will you show us how to do that with PowerPoint?
> 	Uh, no, PowerPoint can't do that.
>
> 6.	(More air sucking into lungs!)
>
> 7.  Well, I still wouldn't trade PowerPoint for it.  (Yeah, but you had to
> have considered it to make that statement, didn't you?!!)
>
> 	I had the typical teacher ailments the week of the presentation,
> so I still want to tweak it a bit before I release it to the Apple II
> Community, but it's coming.  One section is still in the development phase,
> but it'll be worth the wait.
>
> 							][ Infinitum!
> 								Jay Edwards
> 									Apple II User for Life

Bloody well done, you should have _REALLY_ rubbed their noses in it as much
as you could.


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