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On Friday 12 January 2007 13:20, Julian Hall wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6247939.stm > > Just give them a Microsoft/Intel catalogue and they're sorted? > > 'concerns about the increasing burdens on schools'?????? > > It worries the pooh out of me that practically no one in ITC education > > seems to have heard of computerisation or automation. > > What chance do the kids stand? > > Tom te tom te tom > > 18 years ago I left school and went on a CGLI 'Introductory Computing' > course - waste of time as I had A Level. One tutor (with O Level and > younger than me) taught us how to move and delete files in DOS. > > 'OK 'copy *.COM A: enter'' > > (bearing in mind all these machines booted off system FLOPPY disks. > > 'Now type A: enter then DEL *.COM enter' > > Needless to say he ignored my disbelieving stare and killed the thick > end of thirty system disks. Reminds me of the (apocryphal) demonstration of speech recognition in DOS days: The demo is set and ready to go and some wag shouts "format c colon, Yes". -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html