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I have just set up an old Pentium 2 that came from my inexhaustible<br>
supply of old computers with FreeDOS and GEM GUI so my second<br>
son can experience the "joys" of PASCAL at home. PASCAL is part of
the<br>
Computers and IT syllabus for 15-16 year-olds in Bulgaria (frankly I
don't<br>
know why they just don't have them make their own Babbage
machines!);<br>
which is all very fine, in its way, except that kids at his school
are expected to<br>
work on heavily virused machines with Windows 95 in groups of 3;
which is rubbish.<br>
<br>
I am trying to subvert this by inviting various educational types to
'seminars' on the<br>
joys of RevMedia at my school on Saturday afternoons.<br>
<br>
So, at great personal expense to myself (10 Euros and half-an-hour's
work) I set up<br>
a Pentium 2 with 32 MB RAM and FreeDOS for him. He, of course, is
NOT grateful in<br>
the slightest as he now has no excuse for not getting "down and
dirty" and getting<br>
to grips with a bit of mental discipline.<br>
<br>
Personally, in 2010, I see learning PASCAL (which I did in 1985, and
promptly forgot), rather<br>
like my learning Latin in 1974 (which I did in 1985, and promptly
forgot), as a mental discipline<br>
which, while not really being screamingly useful, will serve as
mental training for other tough<br>
stuff that will come his way later in life.<br>
<br>
Having done that I thought it might be FUN to have a go with the DOS
version of <br>
Metacard [Err . . . one wonders how I could update it to version 4.0
with my RunRev<br>
Studio license] . . .<br>
<br>
OK, I'm a bit nutty; well, so I am, are you going to throw me a bone
or what?<br>
<br>
Would be grateful if somebody could give me guidance (no, for
Metacard on DOS, not my nuttiness).<br>
<br>
sincerely, Richmond.<br>
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