good lord, the patience I had as a teenager with a VIC-20
LOL, and I as the mother of a pre-teen with a Vic-20!
good lord, the patience I had as a teenager with a VIC-20
peeks and pokes... duh
i started in 6th grade on a TRS80, couldnt afford the 5 1/4 disk drive, and my printer was 2" thermal paper. I had to spend hours inputing basic code for 20 minutes of cheesy games and drawings, and print it to keep it, so i could enter it all again the next night. We couldn't afford the C64 and such. Although in the 2 years to follow I became quite proficient with apple ]['s! Imagine my excitement when I got the first MAC GUI.
Now I am PC because I have to, and various linux distro's because it rocks!!!
The server was a Control Data Cyber mainframe and the clients were semi-intelligent terminals. The product was called PLATO, and it was the first graphical computer-based education system.
Here are a few thoughts...
CASAA forum, very open in nature, but on-topic discussions only. I say on-topic only not because of censorship or any such thing, but to keep distractions out the forum - there are other forums for off-topic (ie: Not CASAA) discussions. Members-only access to the forums, preferably.
Blogs for members of the board and officers for PV issues.
Blog aggregation of our favorites out there, like Dr. Siegel.
Some sort of CMS... aside from blogging, posting articles and publishing statements should be easy for those designated to do so. There may be more than one person involved, and I'm always wary of flat out editing a page just to add content. CMS wins.
If we could get into it, a tool like Google Wave could be very handy.
Group calendaring (authorized personnel editing only, obviously).
Submission forms to direct inquiries, legal, medical, etc.
A wiki to incorporate information spread across so many wiki's, forums, etc, into one location. If there is a specific direction (such as harm reduction methods, and not manufacturer specs, whatever, I'm not thinking of this right now), thats fine. Pointing to other locations works as well, but it would be nice to have an in-house system of aggregation.
Now for more coffee....
Trash 80s and Vic 20s...ahh yes.. My first was a Timex Sinclair.
i beta'd 7 since the first official release, while i have only done clean installs, it runs more like xp without hogging so much resources as vista. you will enjoy it
ok, I think this does belong here.
There has been some talk of collaboration applications and Wiki type applications. There seems to be many open source options for both. Would seem like a good idea to experiment with a few of these apps.
Anyone else interested in this?
What are the required and desired features? Document collaboration, IM, email, calendaring, audio/video teleconferencing? Even document collaboration can be expanded to online or print collaboration. Whiteboarding?
Thoughts?
Ditto - I hate an upgrade, but from a clean install it's Micro$ofts best OS yet (ok...ok...I know that's an oxymoron)