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RE: Is it appropriate to assume based on age?

Personally I would have loved to have had a wearable in high school, I was
the geeky kid that everyone had beat upon earlier but had eventually decided
it was no longer fun enough so I could probably get away with stuff like
this and not have it broken. Even if I couldn't wear it in class itself
(even calculators weren't allowed on tests) I could have used it alot in the
theater (ever tried reading tech notes in the dark, while running a
spotlight, sound and light board?). We had an electronics lab, the teacher
was Ham licensed, but it wasn't untill years later that I felt inspired to
get my ticket.

P.S. someone mentioned starting at 12 on a C-64, I only beat them by a few
years, I got my C-64 at around 12, but I started with a Timex Sinclair at
around 10 (1980 - 2K of memory - Z80 processor - headphone and mike jacks
available for hooking up a cassette recorder for tape storage,)

What are the memory requirements for UZI anyway, would it run in 2K, I sold
my 16K RAM expansion pack.

> ----------
> From: 	Jareed Potter[SMTP:]
> Sent: 	Friday, June 05, 1998 10:00 AM
> To: 	
> Subject: 	Is it appropriate to assume based on age?
> 
> Excuse me if I'm a bit opinionated, but I see that the subject of
> "youth" has come up.  It is unacceptable to judge whether or not there
> is an age to get serious about anything.  I am a junior in high school
> and I am *VERY* serious about building a wearable computer.  Besides,
> its a proven fact that it is easier to learn when one is young, and I
> have verified this trying to teach my parents and an old man (76+ I
> think).  It is true that there are some things that are not appropriate
> for this particular thread, but as long as there is an interest, it
> would be good to fuel it.  Besides, who would continue if there was a
> bug that destroyed everyone with a wearable on?  It would be a good
> thing that there were budgetless teens who were inspired to carry on the
> idea.
> 					
> 						Think about it,
> 							Jared Potter
> 							asterias
> 	
> 
> 
> PS - That might be a *little* far fetched, and I'm not saying it will
> happen, but it's 	kinda a valid point P)
> 
> 

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