Wk 1 Comment - From Margaret Campbell's Blog

Margaret wrote:

I had asked 5 students to go onto classzone.com, the McDougall-Littell Math book online companion site. Each time they struck the keyboard…the keys transmitted a signal to the computer…but nothing was happening. We only have 5 student computers in the school…so I had to figure out what was going on, but I could not. Luckily, one of the students remembered (or he was the one who set up the problem  ) that there is something called “sticky keys” and there is a procedure to unstick the keys. I had never heard of it, but it totally disabled our class, and I was trying to solve the problem as a hardware problem…and it was a software issue.

 I responded:

Ah yes the good old days of troubleshooting. I remember when I got my first PC. I really got into how it worked. It was DOS based, way before windows 95. I still remember using floppy disks to load things and the hard drive was 40 whole megs!

My point is, it doesn't matter how far we advance in computers, there are always new problems for us to straighten out. :) I am sure in 20 years time we will be trying to argue with our built in AI about how we want our hover cars parked! lol

Thanks for sharing Margaret, that takes me back.