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From: jjboritz@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim Boritz)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.edu,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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Date: 22 Feb 88 07:44:39 GMT
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In article <1988Feb19.204048.3727@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Once it was the mark of an educated man that he could tell time by the sun,
>without mechanical assistance.  Can you?
>-- 

To take this a little further...
A useful skill that children developed was to read the time by the
position of the big hand and the little hand.  The proliferation of
cheap digital watches has almost eliminated this ability.  
-- 
Jim Boritz			jjboritz@watcgl.waterloo.edu
Computer Graphics Lab		
University of Waterloo 		{allegra,utai,clyde}!watmath!watcgl!jjboritz