--- Forwarded Message from "Meechan, Philomena" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: RE: #7176.4 IALLT Tech Museum (!) >Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:54:04 -0400 >Thread-Topic: #7176.4 IALLT Tech Museum (!) >Thread-Index: AcMuxVcZITaBP0kNSaGmgkohqud/zAAu//Nw >From: "Meechan, Philomena" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ I hope all these stories and experiences with technology will be posted into a guestbook (one for each piece of 'machinery'?) on the virtual museum site ... Philomena Meechan UM Language Resource Ctr -----Original Message----- From: LLTI-Editor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: #7176.4 IALLT Tech Museum (!) --- Forwarded Message from Robert <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 14:42:13 -0400 (GMT) >From: Robert <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information = Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7176.1 IALLT Tech Museum ------------------ Hello, i could not pass up the op. to bring this up. There is an old Cuban columnist in the El Nuevo Herald--the The = Miami Herald clone in Spanish--whose column is titled "You are really old if..." (you remember what I am about to write = about...) Well, Fausto Miranda, this old codger from Havana who I think was = born around the time the American flag came down El Morro Castle = (in 1902), remembers--with a bit of help from many of his friends. So, the IALLT Tech Museum is not a bad idea, and a Virtual tech = museum is a great idea. I remember the Brothers cutting into the mimeos back when--early = 1950s in Cuba. I was fascinated by the smells, the inks--the = messier it got the funner it was, the mimeograph machine. I remember one year helping produce a tricolor mimeograph sheet for = Christmas (Navidad). Do you youngsters have any idea how hard one = had to hit those keys on the Underwood behemoths? And I think I was = about 11 or 12 years old way back then. My love of streamlined portable typewriters was fierce after = experiencing the technological impact of grown-up equipment on my = poor little chubby fingers. I owned (shanghaided (?) a portable = Underwood which probably sells for about $500-600 now. I wrote even = love poems on that beauty... Problem was I tried to type as fast as = I am typing now, and the keys would cause to entwine and sometimes = refused to budge from their tight embrace... Oh, technofun! The IBM = Selectric was a wondrous invention. I wrote short stories on it = which had no meaning, no logic, but the sheer pleasure of listening = to that ball strike paper and roller was better than eating = chocolote bars! To this day I am in awe of such a great invention. We lost it all to the Cuban Revolution. (That's another book) I was introduced to the concept of computers--when you could buy = parts at Radio Shack, and put all of those components together. I = was at Purdue University, studying Spanish Literature. I am a = humanist... but all my friends were studying engineering, and I = could see what the future would bring. The Apple computer was not = too far off. I trained on RadioShack's Tandy computers. I worked on = Wang wordprocessors--same wondrous feelings as with those felt for = the IBM Selectric! I wrote a grant for five Vic computers for my = multigrade elementary classes, and made them print text in a = foreign language on a dot matrix printer. (All the experts said = that it could not be done... but they did not read manuals.) My first real professional computer was a KAYPRO, which I still = have at home, somewhere in the garage, and after twenty years it = still works (remember WordStar?) hasta pronto; Usted es viejo, pero viejo de verdad... robert mcfatter tech high school -------Original Message------- From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 06/06/03 03:57 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: #7176.1 IALLT Tech Museum >=20 > --- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:50:55 -0500 >From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: IALLT Tech Museum Great idea. Anyone who has old equipment (the older the better) = and can take a digital picture of it, please send the same to me with information about what it is, your name and institution, and any = other info you can think of that might be of interest. I'll be happy to promote this at IALLT and to gather the pix and create a "museum" = on the IALLT website. Do you think we need board approval? Nah... let's = just do it. OK, all you IALLTers and friends... take the pictures and send them = to me at [log in to unmask] >>> [log in to unmask] 6/5/2003 2:40:20 PM >>> --- Forwarded Message from "Dente, Ed" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Dente, Ed" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #7142.9 Tracking software (!) >Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:30:53 -0400 ------------------ > ------------------ > Read, no wonder you have such a good memory. People who don't > have (grey) hair always stay young. As for the mimeo-ditto > controversy, I liked the mimeo better, because you could get > better reproduction, although the ditto was a lot more > convenient and you could write by hand or draw. I still have > some illustrations I made for songs I used when I was > teaching elementary school English. Oy vey! The main problem > with the mimeo (other than if the black stuff got on you, or > worse yet, on your clothes) was correcting mistakes. You > really had to be patient and let the correcting fluid dry > before you retyped, if you wanted a neat correction. But then > again, wasn't there some advantage to not being able to > correct so easily? Maybe we had to think a little more before > committing our words (or "output", as we would call it now) to = paper? > David Ben-Nahum > The Hebrew University Hey, Read, Bruno, Nina, David, et al., I've got an idea for the = IALLT web site. Why don't we set up a virtual museum on one page, w/ pictures of = some of the technology that we came of age with that were real tools for supporting learning. I'll start - I've still got two working Wollensak 1500SS units - now who remembers those guys? These were workhorse open reel player recorders, otherwise known as "Silver Bullets" among colleagues. = They really made field recording and playing feasible, as long as you had a = good length of extension cord. Anyone still have some open-reel editing tools around? Bruce? I may have some too. I've also got my old Dukane slide-tape projector that the synch = never worked correctly on, and I THINK I still have our old ditto machine = kicking around. Throw in the 1966 IBM Selectric typewriter in our next room and = we've got a good start. We could have our own virtual Smithsonian. If not, well, there's always e-bay. Let's discuss it over a pint on the IALLT 03 pub crawl.(subtle PSA = for both the conf and the crawl.) Cheers, Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edmund N. Dente Director, Language Media Center Ph: 617-627-3036 Tufts University [log in to unmask] Medford, MA 02155 http://ase.tufts.edu/lmc "Hanno ammazzato compare Turiddu!" >=20 Robert G. Brito, M.A. McFatter Technical Center Magnet High School Davie, FL 33317 "Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is." --Zig Ziglar