[EDUCATION] Porting new wine into old bottles

Edwin Pilobello edwinp13 at home.com
Sat Sep 8 07:09:15 UTC 2001


Mike Rueger is currently (I hope) trying to figure out why I still don't
have e-mail confirmation.  I've tried subscribing to squeakland about 3
times already.

Anyway, thanks for the tips.  I'll see what I can do next week to get SQUEAK
on those machines.  They also have several Apple II's, Macs, PowerBooks and
a cart full of some kind of "toy" computer.  If I can get SQUEAK to work on
the PowerMacs and the kids really get into it ... does it prove the idiom
that it's not the box but the software that really matters?

:-)  edwin

P.S.  I haven't been in the Apple world since the demise of Lisa and the
introduction of the flower-child iMac.  About now, I wish I kept all my
hacked 5.25 inch floppies... VisiCalc anyone?


-----Original Message-----
From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Andreas
Raab

You may want to use the plugin image from Squeakland.org (which, btw, is the
image that we installed last week in two schools in L.A.). This is a
relatively small image (~5.5MB) and includes everything you'll probably need
(the only 'interesting' stuff that's missing is 3D but I doubt this is an
issue on this class of machines). However, it's still a good idea to give
Squeak as much RAM as somehow possible - once the kids get going we need
some memory to store all the art.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

PS. If you have any other questions regarding class room use of Squeak, the
squeakland.org mailing list might be a better forum for a discussion.








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