Used laptop stampede

----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Used laptop stampede the school into No! Some people think that a child cannot learn anything in gradeschool if he does not have a computer. My comment was making fun of the parent who thinks acquiring a laptop will make their child smarter (and go to Harvard) instead of flunking out without one (and turning into a crack dealer). I graduated highschool in 1986, and there were a few Tandy machines there plus a few IBM XT's that some of the students could use if they were into computers. The computer lab instructor was also one of the math professors and would show us punch cards saying how much easier we had it with disk drives. Most of the students at my school did not even get their hands on computers while going there, but of course many of us had machines at home (Timex 2068 and C64 in my case). Looking back on it I don't see how not having a dedicated personal computer (iBook for instance) in the classroom would have affected my ability to learn.