: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational
software for math
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 19:30
On 05/24/2012 12:14 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
On 24-05-12 16:06, Tony Sumner wrote:
On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
This trip down memory lane
, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote:
From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational
software for math
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 19:30
On 05/24/2012 12:14 PM
On 24/05/12 15:50, Marc Paré wrote:
I was taught at the very last year at my university where punch cards
were still being used, and I used to chat on beasts that spewed paper
instead of drawing on monitors, way back in 1976. I studied FORTRAN in
1980 so that I could be with the up-and-coming
On 24-05-12 07:50, Marc Paré wrote:
Hi Doug,
Le 2012-05-24 00:50, Doug a écrit :
Logo! I haven't heard that word in thirty years, at least! I'm surprised
it's still around. Never really got into it, but it seemed like fun,
at least from a distance. I started using BASIC, and then learned and
Hi Simon,
Le 2012-05-24 02:08, Simon Cropper a écrit :
In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ibm_pc_5150.jpg/250px-Ibm_pc_5150.jpg}
with Ashton Tate's dbase II on it! Green letters on a nearly black
screen. I still have a pang of
Le 2012-05-24 02:25, Joep L. Blom a écrit :
And Marc,
QNX was developed by Gordon Brown the genius engineer of DEC who
developed the real-time systems (QNX is a real-time OS) like DEC-Lab etc!
Oh, the good old times when programmers new what real-time programming
meant and rotating buffers were
...@marcpare.com
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational
software for math
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 7:49
Hi Simon,
Le 2012-05-24 02:08, Simon Cropper a écrit :
In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1
{http
On 05/24/2012 07:53 AM, James Knott wrote:
Marc Paré wrote:
OK, I'm dating myself here, but, I was taught at the very last year
at my university where punch cards were still being used, and I
used to chat on beasts that spewed paper instead of drawing on
monitors, way back in 1976. I studied
From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational
software for math
On 05/24/2012 07:53 AM, James Knott wrote:
Marc Paré
Jay Lozier wrote:
This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
teletypes with punched tape?
Many years ago, I was a bench tech and spent my days overhauling them.
I later bought a Teletype M35 ASR, as surplus from my employer, which I
connected to my IMSAI 8080.
On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
teletypes with punched tape?
Of course. My favourite paper tape story. At AEE, Winfrith, we did
serious computing on the IBM704 at Risley in Lancashire. We would type
the program onto paper tape
: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice is listed as an educational
software for math
Paul Schwartz wrote:
I used a teletype as well as an audio cassette tape to load and store from
my first micro [kit?]. Microsoft BASIC was great!
I did that too with my Imsai 8080. However, I used Scelbi BASIC
Paul Schwartz wrote:
I had an IMSAI, too. Do you remember 4K RAM boards? Those weren't the smallest
either. It was my introduction to Assembler.
Yes, I remember those, but I started with a 16K board initially loaded
with 4K. It was also my introduction to assembler. I used the
assembler,
On 05/24/2012 02:49 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Hi Simon,
Le 2012-05-24 02:08, Simon Cropper a écrit :
In the same year, I was introduced to a PC1
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ibm_pc_5150.jpg/250px-Ibm_pc_5150.jpg}
with Ashton Tate's dbase II on it! Green letters on
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
and handwriting the code on the special coding forms they required
before I typed the code into the terminal/mainframe.
Years ago, you could by BASIC coding forms at places like Radio Shack.
Coding forms used to be quite common in the days before interactive
On 24-05-12 16:06, Tony Sumner wrote:
On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
teletypes with punched tape?
Of course. My favourite paper tape story. At AEE, Winfrith, we did
serious computing on the IBM704 at Risley in Lancashire. We
Joep L. Blom wrote:
I assume you never worked with the folded papertape used with the DEC
PDP-8!
Other than the folds, there was no difference between folded tape and
the usual rolled stuff. Some punches and readers were designed to hold
fan fold tape, but could work with the other just
On 05/24/2012 12:14 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
On 24-05-12 16:06, Tony Sumner wrote:
On May 24, 2012, Jay Lozier wrote:
This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
teletypes with punched tape?
Of course. My favourite paper tape story. At AEE, Winfrith, we did
serious
Le 2012-05-23 10:31, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
I am looking for good offline and free educational software for kids
under 13 years of age.
Hi Tim,
GCompris on Linux is a wonderful educational program that works in many
languages and has over 100 activities. It is made for free on Linux
Hi Doug,
Le 2012-05-23 11:41, Doug a écrit :
Spreadsheets (LibreOffice Calc) are confusing even to those who are
comfortable with algebra. The notation is clumsy! I wouldn't think
that is something that should be inflicted upon kids under 13!
In our school, we teach:
MSWord -- starting in
On 05/24/2012 12:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Hi Doug,
Le 2012-05-23 11:41, Doug a écrit :
Spreadsheets (LibreOffice Calc) are confusing even to those who are
comfortable with algebra. The notation is clumsy! I wouldn't think
that is something that should be inflicted upon kids under 13!
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