[Trac #1309] kids learning to read like labels, but there are few

[Walter Bender]

> also i came up with an idea called wrapping paper instructions which never
got deployed

I think NeXT may have picked up on that idea at one point. Or maybe it was
IBM. I remember a machine that as it came out of the box, it showed you how
to get started. Really brilliant. But we are not going to individually
package machines: to expensive both in $s and environmentally.

-walter

On 4/14/07, Ted Selker <selker at media.mit.edu> wrote:
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> YEP,  i tried to get rid of the book and irq setting the lpt1 grids of
> buttons.... i can't find our " best ideas" here is an early crappy image or
> two,,,,
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> ea
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> here is how we deployed it (still has problems
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>
> also i came up with an idea called wrapping paper instructions which never
> got deployed: no text
> it showed how to open the laptop, put in the battery,use  the "ultrabay,
> remove the disk, open the keyboard to get to stuff, turn on the computer ,
> plug in the computer, and use the notebook latches.
>
>
>  *Don Hopkins <dhopkins at DonHopkins.com>*
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> 04/08/2007 11:51 PM
>   To
> Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>  cc
> devel at laptop.org, Ted Selker <selker at media.mit.edu>  Subject
> Re: [Trac #1309] kids learning to read like labels, but there are few
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> The virtual laptop sounds like a program that came with my old 90 mhz
> Thinkpad -- I think Ted Selker worked on it. It had a photorealistic virtual
> view of the laptop that you could turn around in different directions to see
> the various parts labeled, and it was integrated with documentation and
> status displays and control panels related to all the gadgets and interface
> plugs. For example, you could bring up the volume control panel by clicking
> on the speaker, and stuff like that!
>
>    -Don
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>
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Well, Albert still got a point here. How about having a virtual
> laptop? Something with a lot of labels and explanations that you can
> take apart (and reassemble with just a button click)?
>
> - Bert -
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 17:03 , Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:
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> #1309: kids learning to read like labels, but there are few
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> Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |        Owner:  mlj
>     Type:  defect         |       Status:  closed
> Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:  Untriaged
> Component:  design         |   Resolution:  wontfix
> Keywords:                 |
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> Changes (by jg):
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>  * status:  new => closed
>  * resolution:  => wontfix
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> Comment:
>
> Heh.  Do you know how many languages are used in Pakistan, alone?
> Labeling the hardware is insane.
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> Go to ethnologue.org. *http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp*<http://www.ethnologue.org/show_country.asp>?
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> name=PK
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> Albert, please apply brain, before inserting foot....
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Walter Bender
One Laptop per Child
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