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Subject: Re: Getting people to use communications systems
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 21:41:08 EST
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Kent Paul Dolan writes:

>Two friends and I set the class down with three Amiga 1000's, showed them
>how to get started, then set them loose with Deluxe Paint.  Kids that had
>never touched a computer before were doing commercial quality work (some of
>them ;-) within 40 minutes, and were unabashedly enthusiastic.

Funny you should bring this up.

Nancy Blachman, my officemate, and several others just took some Mac's
to a meeting to interest young girls in computers and other things hi
tech (gross over simplification here), and they did not receive the same
enthusiasm.  This was in San Jose.  Maybe it was their age, maybe
something derived from those gender/sex difference studies, they don't
know.  It wasn't because the Macs were black and white, things like that.

 --eugene miya 			NASA Ames Research Center