Fwd: Re: Mathiputer info

[John Foust]

>From: Ghena2 at aol.com
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:08:54 EST
>Subject: Re: Mathiputer info
>To: jfoust at threedee.com
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>NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!
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>You must not tinker with and give away as joke!  Please!!
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>TERRIBLE IDEA!!  JOKE IS NOT WORTH IT!  
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>AND TINKERING WITH...... I SHUDDER!
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>Mathiputers are no longer manufactured, and if memory serves me correctly, the company which did make them has metamorphised, merged, whatever.... In other words, disappeared.
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>I am a Special Educator in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I have personally been searching for a working Mathiputer for the past ten years or so.... Perhaps two years of that time online.
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>I have a computer programming expert on stand-by, from half way across the country, who has volunteered.... for free!.... to write a program which will run on Windows, which will operate in fashion similar to Mathiputer.... IF I CAN PROVIDE HIM WITH A WORKING MODEL TO GO BY.  My special ed kids NEED this!
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>Is my opinion, as a special educator of almost 30 years, that none of the new-fangled computer programs can hold a candle to the Mathiputer for teaching kids their number facts.... Especially, those kids who have learning disabilities.
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>So, of course, I will like you to sell your most valuable Mathiputer to ME.... At a price I can afford, no less!
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>If not, I think your Mathiputer belongs in a computer museum.  One of the museums I looked at does have one, but it is not a working model.
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>And sorry I cannot help you further with Mathiputer info.
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>Most sincerely,
> 
>Ghena Dalby
>Salt Lake City, Utah
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