A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

[Richmond Mathewson]

Stephen Barncard wrote:

"And - let's not make this personal, ok?"

Err - why not? nothing like a down-n-dirty,
let's-get-bitchy personal thing :) Just hang-on a
minute while I pull my underpants over my face!

Of course not!

I do slightly wonder, though, why your objection to
old Macs is that they won't run DOS or Windows?  Early
Mac OS s (grammatically awkward, that) are freely
availabe for download. The Demo version of Metacard is
available.

I am not promoting Past-It Macs to teach kids from the
"other" world how to check their e-mails and surf the
internet - personally I think they are a lot better
off without the internet. I am promoting the use of
Past-It Macs as content delivery and reinforcement
machines to support EFL teaching, as well as other
subjects.

Of course, if you bother to trawl the internet it is
hopping with freely downloadable HyperCard stuff for
educational use - and the only real snag is that it is
all monochrome. The HC player is also freely
downloadable.

Many, many people now use various types of xTalk RADs
to develop educational software for either their
employers or for private educational ventures. It
seems that most of those resources are under-used
insofar as those that are not too resource-heavy could
be put onto Past-It Macs for the children previously
mentioned.

The remark about Time not always equalling money was
not personally aimed at you - more at anybody who
finds it rather difficult of somebody doing something
for something other than money. I, for one, get an
enormous "buzz" when I see kids suddenly have a
'Eureka' moment when they break through a conceptual
barrier: that does not stop me, however, asking their
parents to "cough up" the monthly fee!

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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