27 May
2003
27 May
'03
8:59 a.m.
Hans,
That is interesting. What school do you teach at? I used to teach college
accredited
courses in CAD/CAM and CNC Machine Programming, Set Up, and Operation to the
US Navy until the contract ran out. I also had to teach basic trig, and
basic computer
operation skills, etc. as part of the course, because the students had
virtually zero
background in the subject arena. All in three weeks for the CAD/CAM and
five weeks
for the CNC courses too. It was a shame that they didn't do any preliminary
training
because it was so much to cover in so short a time, especially since
training time was
often interrupted by shipboard drills, GQ ( General Quarters ), REFTRA (
Refresher
Training ), and other naval requirements, ie. gun shoot training, trips to
medical, shop
or shipboard picnics, etc.
Best Regards
At 07:15 AM 5/25/03 +0200, you wrote:
TeoZ wrote:
Put somebody that only knows a keyboard, mouse,
and
supervga screen in front of a IMSAI 8080 and they wont know what to do.
No, but they can learn. I do EXACTLY that with a PDP-8/e cpu I drag around
to show at school exhibitions. The first question I get, of course, is
where is the screen and keyboard. I teach the kids binary, than, with the
aid of a small program left in the core we calculate the mean of a
sequence of numbers entered in binary. And not a screen or keybaord in
sight. This demo ALWAYS gets good reviews....
This reminds me ao another story. I was talking with a young colleague a
few years ago, e must have been in his early twenties. We were talking
about old machines and his main question was : "How DID you use thos old
machine without screens and keyboards?". And this from a software engineer!
-- hbp