RETROCOMPUTING LIQUIDATION
Hear hear.
Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> snoball wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I am a teacher here at the local elementary school in Humble, TX. To be
> > honest, the computer department here at the school is rather pathetic, two
> > Apple //e's and an XT that was donated that I can't get to work. To be
> > frank, these kids are going into a world where they are illiterate in the
> > basic workings of a computer. I hate to sound desperate, but I have just
> > exausted all leads I know to take on the matter. I saw your ad and thought
>
> Don't panic. Here in New Jersey, the kids are all experts at
> Nintendo (and some of the brighter lights at hacking security),
> but damned few can actually read the manuals. Remember, the
> most important component of "computer literacy" is "literacy".
> If the kids can read, they can learn computers. If they can't,
> there's not much else worth teaching them except to pee on the
> side of the dumpster the cops aren't watching. (I may be a bit
> prejudiced on the side of reading over computers -- I only have
> fifty-odd computers, I've got [half bought new] several thousand
> books, mostly the science fiction I've loved since before the
> "New Math" was introduced to my grade school [after I'd had the
> benefit of learning the stuff that worked].)
> --
> Ward Griffiths
> They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
> Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
> Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Tue May 12 1998 - 20:17:13 BST
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