I started with computers in '76 using a TTY keyboard to access gummint computers. Later, running CPM, I was able to see the evolution using some of the TTY codes for editing etc. For some reason I was never able to get interested in the games. I was too hooked on the productivity aspects of computers.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 12:33 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curt Raymond Subject: [MBZ] OT: Dichotomy Last night I spent some time on the heatwave BBS with my old TI99/4A. Its pretty crazy connecting a 43 year old computer to a BBS that (at least purportedly) running on a similar vintage computer. I played a couple door games, good fun. Today I created 6 VMs in Microsoft Azure for my students to connect to. I had to modify my security group to allow each student's IP address and prevent bad-guys from messing with me. I'm finding the dichotomy of the two pretty interesting. Also I've been asking students about their first computer. Considering most of my students are my age or older I find it interesting that I'm in the minority in that we had computers in the 1980s, (we got the TI in '83) most of my students started with computers in the late 1990s... -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
