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Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

Subject: Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:35:02 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <25854.GUGJPROE@news.telusplanet.net>,
Simon Williams  <*email*@*luddite.ca*> wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 04:32:56 GMT Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> .. 
>> What does a computer need to be a great learning tool?
> 
> An Apple II with a 1.2 GHz processor!!!
> 
> A built-in version of BASIC that supports decent graphics and audio... 

:-) ...the late E. Dijkstra would have hated this!  Yes, he's the man
who once said: "The teaching of BASIC, in schools, should be
considered a criminal act!"

> ProDOS that can make use of high capacity hard drives...
> 
> Built in A/V output maybe...
> 
> And a big square mouse with one button on it.

Nostalgia is fine, but today there are better learning tools, and
better programming languages, than that!

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Follow-Ups:
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
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References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>
- Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)
  - From: Simon Williams <*email*@*luddite.ca*>

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