Disk archival techniques

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>
>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?

Hi
 You could search on Nova's site at:
 
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
 
 I think they have tapes and transcripts available.
Dwight