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Jarring little bit of clipart

My son came home a few weeks ago with one of those ubiquitious little certificates that his school sends home every time they "complete" something.

This one was a certificate for completing some small bit of computer-reading curriculum--they're using computers to help teach first graders how to read.

I'm looking at the certificate this morning...just looking at the art, and I realize on it is a picture of a classic IBM-XT-formfactor computer, keyboard, old monitor, and 5.25" floppy disk.

None of which are things my 7-year-old son would identify now.
The XT formactor was pretty well defunct by 1992, although Compaq and Dell were using similar cases still in 1999, and the function-keys-down-the-side keyboard is something you have to special-order nowadays.

Don't get me started on 5.25" real-floppy floppy disks.

Posted by Jerry B. Altzman on May 30, 2006 2:30 PM |

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