[Wolves] Some cool links

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 17:01:59 BST 2007


On 02/10/2007, Mark Harrison <Mark at yourpropertyexpert.com> wrote:
> David Goodwin wrote:
> >> This may be some subject that is particularly suited to Macs also.
> >>
> >> I am not sure I would want to study in such a Uni, it hardly seems to
> >> be 1-to-1 tuition there.
> >>
> >>
> > Tuition != Lectures.
> >
> >
> Indeed. We had four types of tuition:
>
> - Lectures (about 10 per week), between 30-200 people in the room
> depending on how popular the module
> - Classes (2 per week), typically 8-10 people in a far more interactive
> group
> - Tutorials (3 per week), 2 of us and a tutor going through stuff
> - Practicals, networked Sun workstations (this was the late 80s), with
> "practical assistants" to help with individual issues at certain periods
> each week, but open access to the lab pretty much full-time, please
> remote terminal access 24x7.
>
>
> Of course, this was in the days before affordable laptops! You can plot
> the evolution of mainstream IT access in my family:
>
> Me, born 1970 - studied Maths/Comp at Uni 1989-92. Only those studying
> Comp Sci actually had computers. I knew one person with a laptop, and
> his dad was a self-made millionaire. His dad was also the only person I
> knew with a car-phone (in his Roller) :-)
>
> My brother, born 1972 - studied History / Politics, 1991-1994. He had a
> desktop PC in his third year for his dissertation. Others did their
> dissertations on paper or a shared "IT Room" facility in the Uni.
>
> My sister, born 1979 - studied Geography, 1998-2001. Lived out, four
> students in the house, each with their own laptop.
>
> M.
>

Crikey Mark you did well then :-)  When I was born you still had to
walk into a computer.  They still took up whole buildings back in 1963
:-)
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Kevan Farmer
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