On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 7:50:34 AM Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > That is a very good point, but the reason why I have tried to design my > computers with 100% removable media is so they can be shared in a > classroom. Even at $35 a class might not have one per student. If you > have 10 machines and 30 students, each with their own SD card, it works > better than if you have permanent stuff inside each computer. Though > today's users have learned to cope with hard disks and installing > software, the old floppy-only machines were actually easier for them. +1. A second reason to have shareability is reuse. In a classroom the utility of projects are primarily in the lessons learnt while building it, not in its end use. So it makes sense to be able to dismantle it and reuse it for another project.
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