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Thread ID: 23278	2002-08-12 02:48:00	old monitors free to good home	Chris Wilson (431)	Press F1

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70345	2002-08-12 11:13:00	I have a vague feeling that my old monitor floating around at the back of the cupboard can't actually be used anyway. The pins are different to colour (2 rows instead of 3?) so I need an old monochrome card - which I think left the house in the XT. Six years ago schools grabbed anything they could get to teach typing. These days the curriculum requirements mean that computers need to be reasonably up to date. Giving kids an old monitor and a screwdriver is A Very Bad Idea. High voltages lurk at surface level in monitors for a long time after they are turned off. Letting them do it on an old monitor encourages them to play on newer ones...	Heather P (163)
70346	2002-08-12 11:28:00	> Six years ago schools grabbed anything they could get > to teach typing. These days the curriculum > requirements mean that computers need to be > reasonably up to date. Yep that's seems ture my old primary school had all Macs now they all nice win 98 network computers(feel much more at home lol)as for my current school Win 98's networked everywhere though the school Y9's HAVE to unless doing a language must do TIM(Text & Information Management) but not all schools are like that :( > Giving kids an old monitor and a screwdriver is A > Very Bad Idea. High voltages lurk at surface level in > monitors for a long time after they are turned off. > Letting them do it on an old monitor encourages them > to play on newer ones... well too ture i'm a school student and i'd hate to be in my schools workshop and be ZAPPED @ 12 VOLTS the school workshop is far too dangurous at the moment(or is that cos i don't like it - lol) the swimming pool is the other side of the school	njonez (1460)
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