Re: Old School
By: MRO to Dux on Fri Jan 03 2025 05:23:22
> didn't do much. in middle school we had home ec and shop class. in home ec
> we just cooked a few things. We had sewing as well. I can not remember how
> to thread a sewing machine. We didn't learn how to balance a budget or
> anything.
I vividly remember that class -- we had to make pasta, bake brownies or cookies
from scratch, cook chicken/beef and check the temp, use the two-tub method to cl
ean dishes, scrub the sink after, etc... for the sewing portion you had two opti
ons for what you could make: pillows or a rifle case...
> we had computer courses in iigs. nothing serious and no programming.
> we just typed up assignments.
Middle school we used Logo and Applesoft Basic on the //e's -- I think the iigs
had a few interesting things like a handscanner and a TV camera interface (w/ QV
GA resolution and horrible color).
High school was all Think Pascal because that's what our computer teacher was mo
st familiar with, they had replaced the IBM typewriters by that point with IBM P
S/2s which were used exclusively for typing and business applications, which was
a shame because there were a lot of other opportunities but I recall they had n
o one to really deal with those so time in those labs was pretty sparse.
Knock wood I can't think of a single injury from the shop classes other than one
idiot who used to see how far back he could lean the shop stools before he tipp
ed over... we even had a huge oxyacetylene torch to liquify rusty bolts and mana
ged no burns to our bodies or retinas.
I don't mean to dump on how it is today, as a parent I know we've got different
problems today, but it was honestly a different era back then -- By age 11 or so
school ended at 1:30-3:00, my parents were home by 6:00 best case, I had to get
home, make myself food, and figure out what to do with myself... and those nudi
e GIF files took forever at 2400bps.
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