Disk archival techniques

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > How many people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
> > > undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires?  Many of the students
> > > were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
>
> It's worrying that I could do this before I even went to primary school...

How can somebody even consider a career in "engineering" if they've never
even made their own flashlight ("torch" on the other side of the pond)

> > > Many of them made a dead short across the battery, and then touched one of
> > > the bulb contacts to that. etc.
> > Wow, comedy for nerds.  I have to see that.
>
> Well, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

I cried.
I try to teach beginning programming in C and "intel" assembly language.
But I don't have enough common ground to even talk to people with NO
concept of the world around them.

Does anyone else remember that show (about 6 months to a year ago),
and have any references to a write-up of it?

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com