On Wednesday 19 September 2007 09:03, Dieter wrote: > > Am I too old? Adding logs instead of multiplying (And subtracting instead > > of dividing) was how I learnt to do multiplication adn division before > > you werte allowed to use calculators in school exams (Early 1980's in NZ > > :) > > Some of us were using calculators in school exams in the 1970s. Maybe > it was a NZ thing? :-)
Possibly... We weren't allowed to use them till 1982 IIRC... The year I did School-Cert... > > And writing graphics programs that had to fit in 6 KB of core memory > (real core, not semiconductor) along with the interpretor (OS? What's > that?) and the output device was a teletype with a roll of yellow paper. > I'm not that old... We had fancy equipment... CBM PET's in 1980 and in 1983 we got C64's... With colour screens! > Today the kiddies think they are being tortured if they don't have a > lightening fast 3D eye-candy GUI even though it serves no purpose. I often think it detracts... Todays ICT courses in the UK are completely useless. My kids goto a maths & computing specialist school. What a joke. ICT is paced at the slowest muppet in the class and consists of spreadsheets, and making webpages using fancy software... They don't even learn what a computer consists of until almost the last year of school. (At least maths & the sciences are streamed). H _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
