On 2014-10-15, 8:50 AM, Ed Vance -> Alan Zisman wrote:   
      
      
    EV> In 1996 when I began using a dial-up internet account I used Netscape,   
    EV> I believe it was their Navigator 2.11 version, but my memory is rusty,   
    EV> it might had been called Communicator, I think the 2.11 version number   
    EV> is correct though, but there I go thinking again.   
      
   I'm thinking Netscape Communicator was the Navigator Browser plus other   
   Internet software - an email program, the Composer webpage editor (which I   
   still use in the open source Kompozer version) etc.   
      
    EV> Facts are Facts and what I think ain't always so.   
      
    EV> I might had asked You this before:   
    EV> I'm thinking Commodore computers were used in Your Classroom.   
    EV> Were they networked?    Thanks!   
      
      
   No, I never taught in a C64 classroom or computer lab. When I was first   
   talking about   
   putting computers into the school where I was teaching, around 1991 or so, a   
   high school vice principal took me into the school basement and offered me a   
   bunch of Commodore PETs they weren't using - 16k RAM, built-into desktops. I   
   said 'no thanks'.   
      
   I put a rag-tag assortment of donated computers (8088 and 286s to begin with)   
   into my school. Networked them using Lantastic software in order to share a   
   single printer and a single modem connection and for file sharing. When I was   
   able to get rid of the 8088s and move to all 286/386s, I installed Windows 3.1.   
      
   My daughter (now 33 and a mother of two) had C64s in her elementary school   
   classroom when she was in Grade 5. I remember her coming home puzzling over   
   what she had to type to load a program.   
      
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