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Bones and Joints Get Older; Media Gets Unreadable
By Terry Calhoun, IT Trends Commentator
Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)
University of Michigan
Back in about 1985, I was busy staying at home with my kids
and working free-lance–writing, typesetting, designing books,
etc. I recall laying out more than $3,000 for a Radio Shack
daisy-wheel printer that would be able to print out some of
the nicely laid-out things I produced for customers. I spent
days learning how to use WordStar to get that printer to create
bullets–I finally succeeded with a superscripted, bolded,
period and, of course, every time I used it a lot, I broke
another daisy wheel.
That printer was driven by a couple of early PCs which used
5 1/4-inch floppy drives. I began naming each new floppy that
I used after planets, and then moons of planets. Eventually,
I ran out of moons of the planets circling Sol and began using
fictitious planets from the many science fiction novels and
short stories I had read. By the time I got up to nearly 1,000
floppies I gave up and created a numbering system. I still
have those floppies, but they’re (almost?) worse than useless.
See, I still can’t make my mind up, and that’s what this column
is about. Should I just throw them all out?
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IT NEWS
Pasadena City College Puts Internet Filter on Faculty/Staff Computers
This sounds like the harshest policy we've seen yet on
a college campus. (Pasadena City College Courier Online)
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Duke University Engineers Join Robotic Vehicle
Team
Why are Duke and Carnegie Mellon building a tank trap? Why, to
win $2M from the Department of Defense, why else?
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Computer Log-in Issues at Butler University Frustrate Students
Students returning for spring semester found random instances
of being unable to log into the campus network. It just might
have something to do with the ongoing network replacement.
(Butler University’s Student News)
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Southwest Baptist Mandatory "Tech Fee" Draws Fire from Students
However, much of the fee increase is for unwiring campus
buildings, so students are likely to end up appreciating
the value. (Omnibus Online)
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Smart Classrooms Evolving on Two-Year Campuses
DC-area community colleges are finding that touch screens
are an essential part of classroom technology.
(American Association of Community Colleges
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RESOURCES
Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life
The online world has come to mirror the offline world,
and vice versa. Meanwhile, the demographcs of the online
world have markedly changed.
(Pew Internet and American Life Project) [pdf]
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DEALS, CONTRACTS, AWARDS
CDW-G Announces Multiple State Award Contract Wins
CDW Government, Inc., the government and education
subsidiary of CDW Corporation and supplier of
brand-name Information Technology (IT) products
and services to governments and educators,
announced it is providing new technology to the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Ohio.
(CDW News)
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NEW PRODUCTS
N.Y. College Opens Center to Train Faculty in Emerging Technologies
Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY,
is addressing the issue of faculty technology
training with a brand-new facility, which includes
PC and MAC training areas, two large plasma screens,
a scanner for slides and photos, wireless laptops,
video teleconferencing equipment, and a whole lot more.
(American Association of Community Colleges)
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We Have Seen the Future and It Is Flash-based
How about five gigabytes in a yo-yo? Built in thumbprint
scanner? Turn any computer into your computer? No problem!
(Christian Science Monitor)
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