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I've been taking my home computer apart and putting it together again for years
(Increasingly difficult computers). What it's given me is a feeling of power.
I know that it's a piece of hardware with some clever software that makes it
smart. I know what to plug in where.
Outside of that, I'm not sure a person needs to know how to do this unless they
want to. Using it is the biggie.
Marilynne <who deleted some of this so Lyris doesn't get me>
At 01:16 PM 12/17/99 , Sharon Burton-Hardin wrote:
>The point to this is that if they are curious and technical enough to do
>this, there are about 10 things that fall out of it. The ability to take it
>apart and put it together is not sufficient but it is necessary, in my never
>humble opinion.
>
>sharon
>
>Sharon Burton-Hardin
>President of the Inland Empire chapter of the STC
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org>
>| Sharon Burton-Hardin wrote:
>|
>| > The ability to take their computer apart to the boards and put the parts
>| > back together again. Seriously. I am working on an article right now
>about
>| > the fact that for the several years (4?) I have been teaching Frame and
>| > RoboHELP, 20% of my students cannot create a directory and copy the
>contents
>| > of a floppy to the directory.
>|
