Someone else's case in point.
My thesis advisor has a
similar problem. One of the classes he teaches is an introductory course
in the use of computers in education. He tries to present numerous examples
in this course, and one of them is a program prepared for the Apple 2e
computer. The problem is, of course, that today, finding an Apple 2e is far from
the simplest of tasks. Thus he keeps a (so far) working computer of this sort
in the storeroom of the Tel Aviv University School of Education building, and whenever he wants
to demonstrate the software, he brings the computer upstairs, dusts it
off, and runs the program. Just imagine having to do that sort of thing whenever you wanted
to read a book published more than ten years ago!
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