I delivered some pictures (BTW:I spent almost 1 hour to find in Internet good picture of punched card, and next half when searching for BIG photo of z/990 !!!), some "funny" facts - like "mainframe is bigger than fridge ...and there is refrigerator inside!", or "in the past mainframe had 64kB of RAM. Yes, it's 1000 times less than the oldest PC in your class." Another : "mainframes are veeeery expensive, entry level solutions is over 1M$, and believe me: no game will run on it".
Last but not least: I gave him some requsites: the card, the tape, and Bus&Tag cable (half meter with the plug). The last thing wasn't good idea: boys used them as a club (weapon) and were fighting.
Software is safer. <g>
-- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland
Richard Heritage wrote:
This is more of a Friday question, but I got busy Friday and didn't have time to post. At my son's school, they are having parents come in and talk to the class about their jobs. It's heartwarming that my son is proud of me and wants me to come in and speak, but I'm at somewhat nervous about trying to make what I do interesting or even intelligible to second graders. Somehow I don't think that HiperSockets will be as exciting to them as they were to me when I first heard about them.
I have some ideas, but I'm hoping that some of you have been through this before and have some tips on things that worked (or didn't work!) for you. How do you explain such a technical occupation to young children? What props or visual aids would you use to illustrate work that mostly goes on inside either our brains or our computers? Any ideas you have will be appreciated.
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