Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Fwd: [K12OSN] TuxPaint 0.9.16 vs. KidPix a teachers perspective]

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Albert Cahalan skrev:
> I really wonder what these people do.
>
> Do they save to floppies? Have they found floppies to be tolerant
> of being taken to the gym, cafeteria, bus stop, etc.? Do the drives
> work fine after reading potato chips? When the floppies go bad,
> do the kids cry?
>   
Reminds me of my days as a student (about 15 years ago when the 5 1/4" 
was still the standard).
Two cases I myself witnessed:
One person couldn't get his floppy to work. It had been in his backpack 
without its cover (not to mention without any hard box or book to 
protect it from being damaged), and he had actually managed to get 
butter on the exposed part of the disc!
Another person managed to put his floppy between the two floppy drives 
(in the narrow opening between the physical boxes) and couldn't get it 
out again.

You don't have to be a small child to get in trouble with floppies ;-)

Now they might use memory sticks which at least will survive a lot more 
than a floppy. A friend forgot to remove his memory stick from his 
pocket before putting his trousers into the washing machine, and the 
memory stick still worked after it was washed.

Kind regards,
Tore