Most often we see that old techology dies down because new technology totally replace it. Its hard to see that some of the techology that you work with at the begining does not exist any more, it extinct . But sometimes these old techology help to educate student and provides excellent tool to work with in new techological surrounding.
One lucky flock of BBC Micros is getting another lease of life by helping to educate students in the art of rigorous programming. Student work with Micros to understand how computer functions and understand to steps that take place from converting our text into electronic signal and back to the text.
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Maybe technology is sort of like fashion, what is old is new, what is new is old. Don't throw it away, it will come back. It's a great reminder that we can always learn from where we've come from, even in a industry where you'd think obsolete means obsolete.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting. Technolog is one of the few areas I would have assumed that the old did mean extinct. Maybe that Atari I found in my mom's basement might make a comeback?
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