On 28/04/14 10:48, John Rumm wrote:
On 27/04/2014 20:31, Bill Wright wrote:
Katie, who is 11, was helping me in the workshop today. She told me how
some of her class been in trouble for filming the teachers covertly. Of
course I told her how, in 1965, I'd made a sound recording of our maths
teacher, with the class deliberately winding him up just to make it more
fun. I then found myself trying to explain about reel-to-reel tape
recorders. I could see that Katie just couldn't grasp the concept.
Finally she asked, "But how much memory did it have?"

When my daughter was fairly young (4 ish perhaps) she had mastered the
video and DVD player and could watch various films / programs /
compilation tapes over and over[1] - quite often the same one several
times a day for weeks at a time. She was sat with mum watching a
broadcast of one of the Albert Campion series of shows... at the end
said "again mummy, again!" It was then mum had to explain the whole
concept of broadcast TV to her!


My very young niece was caught having out several coins into the floppy
disk slot (or maybe zip drive slot) of a Mac G3 to 'make it work'

[1] Clangers, Bagpus, Ivor the Engine, The Trap Door etc, plus loads of
classic Cartoons.



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