Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century

2009-11-07 Thread Yama Ploskonka
I apologize. As a member of PlayPower, I will have to help them see what is happening in Uruguay, that 400 K computers have been delivered, albeit the issue of content useful for the classroom is not yet solved there either. On 11/8/09, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, S

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century

2009-11-07 Thread Sean DALY
there is unfortunately no shortage of very misinformed comment, e.g.: http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article182183.ece On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/pl

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century

2009-11-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century Interesting. Though the challenge they have -- localising closed src binaries... to non ASCII-using locales -- is rather hard. Hard not to note the very misin

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century

2009-11-07 Thread Caroline Meeks
Anyone know these guys? I wonder how feasible it would be down the road to share content. The games they are porting seem like they would also be good for Sugar. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-ce