"Dirk Weber" wrote in message
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Am Freitag, dem 27.10.06, schrieb in
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I don't know
what I feel is more ancient, me or the internet!
Yepp.
In some news groups People write that their pc is a slow one with only
1 GHz. Reading this I remember the old times (oh where have they gone
to?) when we bought our first computer, a 286 with 1 (in words: one)
mb of ram and a 40 mb hdd.
That's newer than my first PC. It is an Apple ][+, with 64 kB of RAM
(including the expansion card), a 1 MHz 6502 processor, and 8 colors on the
screen (each pixel, IIRC, showed only half the colors, which made
programming interesting). It had both Applesoft BASIC (in ROM) and Integer
BASIC (on floppy).
I rememeber watching the movie "Apollo 13." I started to laugh when they
said that the Apollo spacecraft 1,000,000 bytes of memory. My little PDA (an
HP 200 LX) had 1 MB of memory, which was a lot back then (it was in the
mid-90s).
Soon afterwards we bought our first modem, a 2400 baud modem which
opened the world to us. That must have been around 1990. We first
started as point to a mailbox. After some months we got connected to
the usenet and that was the big step.
The world has change quite a bit since then, and it is still
developing. I still haven't lost my hope that the improving
possibilities to communicate world wide via the internet will make
life a bit more peaceful.
Now we do have two children (11 and 16 ys) and all members of our
family own a pc. Even our Elijah with his 11 years now sarts using the
internet as his playground. Wikipedia is a great thing for a curious
young boy to discover the world of sciences and arts.
One thing computers can do is make it so you can see what is on his screen.
There is a program called VIsion that does htis. I use it in school. It is
great. I can control any student's computer instantly and lock it up, if
needed. Useful when a student needs help, sometimes with academic stuff, and
often with learning what sites are not allowed.
Jeff
Greetings from Arft, that is in south western Germany,
Dirk Weber
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