Someone else's case in point.


My thesis advisor has a similar problem. One of the classes he teaches is an introductory course in the use of computers in education. He tries to present numerous examples in this course, and one of them is a program prepared for the Apple 2e computer. The problem is, of course, that today, finding an Apple 2e is far from the simplest of tasks. Thus he keeps a (so far) working computer of this sort in the storeroom of the Tel Aviv University School of Education building, and whenever he wants to demonstrate the software, he brings the computer upstairs, dusts it off, and runs the program. Just imagine having to do that sort of thing whenever you wanted to read a book published more than ten years ago!


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