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Re: friday funnies early



Would you believe that a Google search on "film strip projector" returns 295
results?!  And... you can still purchase them.  Just when we thought
something was definitely gone.

Glenn Smith

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Rankin [mailto:rankin@BU.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:27 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: friday funnies early


to the younger folks out there.  When was the last time anyone saw, much
less used,  the old film projectors in school.  "Turn the wheel at the
beep."
Alex Rankin


Joy Kingsolver wrote:

> I like to be surrounded by old technology--a rotary phone,
> LPs, antique typewriters, quills & inkwells...My children are
> accustomed to Mom's weird ideas of what's cool, though their
> friends are often amused & puzzled.
>
> The other day I found out that my son's school replaced all its math
> textbooks with new ones, in part because the math word problems
> contained references to records and tapes, not CDs, and the kids
> didn't know what they were. It made me think about the difficulty
> of keeping print sources up-to-date, and the future of printed vs.
> electronic texts....
>
> Just musing on a wet, grey day in Chicago,
> Joy Kingsolver
>
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