27 May
2003
27 May
'03
5:46 a.m.
On May 25, 7:15, Hans B Pufal wrote:
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....
Exactly what I did with my 8-year-old niece at Christmas. She's really
into "sums" and arithmetic at the moment, so when I wanted to play with
my 8/E, I taught her a little about binary, showed her how to read
octal off the switches and lights, and we added some numbers. She
loved it.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
27 May
27 May
6:16 p.m.
Peter Turnbull wrote:
On May 25, 7:15, Hans B Pufal wrote:
>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 keyboard in sight. This demo ALWAYS gets good reviews....
Exactly what I did with my 8-year-old niece at
Christmas. She's really
into "sums" and arithmetic at the moment, so when I wanted to play with
my 8/E, I taught her a little about binary, showed her how to read
octal off the switches and lights, and we added some numbers. She
loved it.
And so did you I'm sure. I sometimes wonder who gets the most out of
these demos, the domonstrators or the demontratees - definitly a win-win
situation.
-- hbp
29 May
29 May
9:13 a.m.
Peter Turnbull wrote:
On May 25,
7:15, Hans B Pufal wrote:
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....
Exactly what I did with
my 8-year-old niece at Christmas. She's really
into "sums" and arithmetic at the moment, so when I wanted to play with
my 8/E, I taught her a little about binary, showed her how to read
octal off the switches and lights, and we added some numbers. She
loved it.
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