Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education

xzvf writes "As someone who went to high school in the '80s, this newsletter from 1980 (PDF) is a blast from the past. An interview with Microsoft talks up its BASIC language product and predicts voice control of computers in five years. Advertisements for Compute magazine, which was about to go monthly, and an article about a computer 'network' in Minnesota that connects some fax machine-looking terminal to a central computer over telephone lines. Lots of Atari, TI and RadioShack news too. It's a reminder from 30 years ago that we are still not using technology effectively in education."

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Recursive History

[Anonymous Coward]

BWA HA HA HA LOOK AT HOW OLD EVERYTHING WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO DURR HURR HURRRRRRRRRR that's just so goddamned hilarious the millionth or so article like this we've seen!

I'm glad to see we're permanently locked in the past insofar as what amuses us. I can't wait until another thirty years down the line when we look back on us looking back on the past because we don't have any history of our own to make.

Re:older computers are better teaching tools

[Anonymous Coward]

If I could, I would seriously report people like you for child abuse. What's worse, you probably don't even realize it.