Re: Observation about group

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 12 Dec 2001 03:08:49 GMT, obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>	Jeff, you should see the expressions that I'm ALREADY getting:  the begging,
>the pleading!  No one has gotten down on their knees yet, but "some people"
>really don't want me to present essentially the same program running on a
>sixteen year old computer (hmmm?  I could run it on a 1982 Apple II and make it
>an even two decades old computer with 128K!).

My brother keeps telling me about these "cool, new" technologies from
time to time and much of the time I keep telling him, "Oh, I've been
doing something very much like that for years with my Apple II."  :-)

>Why do we need new computers if
>they don't do any better of a job than an old //e?  That's a question they
>don't want to have to answer.

I've always wondered the same thing.  I still use my IIgs because it
still gets the job done.  I don't own any word processing, page
layout, spreadsheet or database software for my PC (or if I do and am
just forgetting about it, I don't use them) as I have that stuff on my
IIgs and I've already paid for them, know how to use them and they
work.

My PC is used mostly for work (I work from home as a Windows
programmer) and for playing modern games.

>	Me?  I think that it's an excellent question -- in fact, it should be the key
>question for technology purchases:  WHY do we need this?  If nothing else, then
>the other teachers should be inspired (or guilted) into writing better
>PowerPoint presentation and having better PP presentations from their students
>(YUCK!  I saw the example for a high school student that the instructor used as
>an great example of what students can do with PP.  Jeff--it was all flash and
>no cash.  Lots of graphics, cute screen transitions and two or three paragraphs
>copied word for word from a book.  If this is the future of classroom
>reporting, aw heck, let's face it:  IT IS.

I remember when SVGA first came out, there were a lot of games that
came out that looked fantastic, meaning they had beautiful graphics,
but the games were absolutely awful.  Everyone was buying this stuff
simply because it looked good.

The web is kind of like that too.  There is more focus on looks than
on content.

Using the Apple II has taught me a lot about a lot of things.  I'll
just have to continue sharing that knowledge with others in the hope
that it will start to rub off and improve things for everyone.

--
 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com
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