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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Florida Computer Literacy Requirement
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 11:22:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 11:22:18 1986
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This article is from codas!bellcore!ki4pv!tanner (Tanner Andrews)
 and was received on Fri Aug  1 02:23:48 1986
 

) weemba@brahms.berkeley.edu writes of the "computer literacy"
) requirement we will have here in GOD's own country effective fall '87.
) required: powerup/down, load & execute prog, handle storage materials.

This is just wonderful.  Now, (depending on who gets the contract) we
may expect 3rd graders to know "everything" about "operating a
computer".  More precisely, but generally overlooked, is the fact
that the procedures vary widely from system to system.

Is it going to be useful (when they get out of school) that they know
how to turn on a Fruit-Farms Microsystems computer and load a game;
most likely under Grapefruit-Dos which no one will have used for 10
years?

By the time the kid's out, there may be a voice-operated power
switch, run by a $3.50 cmos microprocessor which can recognise one
word: "ON". ;-)

Generally, I'm glad that they're only in Tallahassee for only two
(long) months.  Seems like so much longer when they're in session.

					tanner andrews, systems
					compudata south, deland