From: Ghena2(a)aol.com Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:08:54 EST Subject: Re: Mathiputer info To: jfoust(a)threedee.com NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! You must not tinker with and give away as joke! Please!! TERRIBLE IDEA!! JOKE IS NOT WORTH IT! AND TINKERING WITH...... I SHUDDER! Mathiputers are no longer manufactured, and if memory serves me correctly, the company which did make them has metamorphised, merged, whatever.... In other words, disappeared. I am a Special Educator in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I have personally been searching for a working Mathiputer for the past ten years or so.... Perhaps two years of that time online. I have a computer programming expert on stand-by, from half way across the country, who has volunteered.... for free!.... to write a program which will run on Windows, which will operate in fashion similar to Mathiputer.... IF I CAN PROVIDE HIM WITH A WORKING MODEL TO GO BY. My special ed kids NEED this! Is my opinion, as a special educator of almost 30 years, that none of the new-fangled computer programs can hold a candle to the Mathiputer for teaching kids their number facts.... Especially, those kids who have learning disabilities. So, of course, I will like you to sell your most valuable Mathiputer to ME.... At a price I can afford, no less! If not, I think your Mathiputer belongs in a computer museum. One of the museums I looked at does have one, but it is not a working model. And sorry I cannot help you further with Mathiputer info. Most sincerely, Ghena Dalby Salt Lake City, Utah