Re: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

From: Danny Yee (danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 09:57:45 EST


Tony Barry wrote:
> In 1978 I bought a z80 based Tandy TRS-80 Microcomputer. As a result
> two of my children are in IT.
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Anthony Healy wrote:
> I think that's brilliant. You have achieved an outcome our governments spend
> millions on, and in which they still fail.
 
Yes, but I'm not sure this solution scales. We could no doubt
buy every child in Australia a Tandy TRS-80 (if they can still be
obtained?), but one rather suspects Tony himself was a more important
contribution to his children's development. And I don't know that
he'd be happy and able to foster thousands of kids, or that making
thousands of clones of him would be a good idea!

Danny.



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