On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christine Aguila <cagu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've met some students this week who have never seen a record player (I > quickly told them to google record player and click web images), and I used > the expression *45* and received lots of wrinkled brows; I then proceeded to > define the term used. :-) About 10 years ago I had an old IBM Selectric at my house. My kids came over to visit, and the youngest (then about 6) looked at it and asked, "Where's the screen?" It occurred to me that she didn't know what a typewriter was; she'd never seen one before. I proceeded to put a sheet of paper in and show her how it worked. "It's all in real time - no screen, hit the key and the letter appears immediately on the paper." She had a ball with it! (pun intended - it was a Selectric, after all...), until she made a mistake and asked, "Daddy, where's the delete button?" ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.