Would this letter be ok to send to my teacher???

Surely if your school is listed you can just.. order it from the site without neednig to ask your teacher who will likely know nothing about it anyway?
 
infernox said:
Im only 20, but from the ages of dial up and the pentium 1, I had some fun dealing with that with my rents, I suppose that's what's contributed to most of my knowledge and early start.
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Sod's Law, my year group at school was the last year not to have IT in the curriculum. I'm 33 and only latched on in the late Pentium 2 stage. After my gap year, where I did the A/S level IT (and also volunteered in a PC shop), I went to uni where PCs and Macs were everywhere and the rest was history. Had a nice T1 connection from student digs, then the reality of going to a 56k connection (for the first time) back at my parents during summer hols was a right kick in the teeth. Never realised I had it so good in the halls. Gladly, my broadband connection equalled T1 from around 2004.
 
Are you actually going to post that letter and then await a reply? Why not just pop into the IT department during break time and speak to a technician?

As Fox said, the staff most probably won't know what you're on about anyway.
 
Why do you have 12 gb of ram in that rather old computer? Does it even accept that amount?
 
Monserrat said:
Don't wanna sound patronising, but I'm truly fascinated that Warecast as a year 7 knows all of this. I come from an era when computing wasn't in the curriculum, so I didn't know this stuff until I took IT as an AS level. That was after 6th form, so I was aged 19.
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Did you honestly just suggest that you think most boys learn about computers from what they are taught at school!?

I doubt there is a single person on this forum (among those who registered fr the hardware side at least) that learnt anything at all about hardware and operating systems from school.
 
[TW]Fox;21861233 said:
Did you honestly just suggest that you think most boys learn about computers from what they are taught at school!?

I doubt there is a single person on this forum (among those who registered fr the hardware side at least) that learnt anything at all about hardware and operating systems from school.
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So true.

I learnt absolutely nothing about IT from school. Same for my BTEC National IT course at college, I knew absolutely everything the course taught already (except the programming module).
 
i bet most people on here knew/know more than their teachers at school do

i know i did and there was others who knew far far more than me.

IT at school was spreadsheets and newsletters done in word.
 
A computer was a luxury when I was in school and the whole school shared a line of 4 computers connected to the net via AOL dialup.

YEAH!
 
[TW]Fox;21861233 said:
I doubt there is a single person on this forum (among those who registered fr the hardware side at least) that learnt anything at all about hardware and operating systems from school.
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When I was at school calculators weren't even invented.
The most technical thing I had was a slide rule.
 
Monserrat said:
Yeah Warecast. I guess it depends on your upbringing too. I was your age over 20 years ago. It was early days for PCs back then. My dad and I mainly tinkered with oscilloscopes and amateur radio. So yeah we had a technical background, just not PCs back then. I'm still intrigued what you've picked up though.
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You are only 2 years older than me, and I was tinkering with IBM-PC's from 386 onwards. I had an Amstrad CPC-464 from the age of 7 (IIRC!).
Could never afford up to date PC's, but had an amiga 500 as well. The 486 I used to use I worked a saturday job at the local market while still in school to upgrade it. It never had sound, so bought a sound card, quad speed cd reader etc.

We are the first generation that really could learn about computing from an early age. And did!
 
[TW]Fox;21861233 said:
Did you honestly just suggest that you think most boys learn about computers from what they are taught at school!?

I doubt there is a single person on this forum (among those who registered fr the hardware side at least) that learnt anything at all about hardware and operating systems from school.
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Having taught IT at school I can say for definite that no hardware is taught until at least 14-15 and even then it's only in certain qualifications.

The kids are more likely to be taught word/excel/access/powerpoint than anything actually do with operating a computer.
 
My Dad was a computer engineer in the 80s so I always had computers around the house. The first family computer was an Acorn Archimedes. I remember Dad doing the upgrade to RISC OS 3 which was just a case of swapping a chip on the motherboard.

Later on I had a 486 which I upgraded with a new motherboard and I think a Cyrix 133 processor. I put some more RAM in it too but can't remember how much. It probably had Windows 95 put on it at that point too.
 
She responded saying
'I am not sure? I will see if I can find out some information.'
I will wait till she finds more out :)
 
you've broken the ice from teacher to student. Ask now if you can see her jiggly bits.

j/k

Good on you for wanting to study and looking at the cheapest way of doing it!
 
ivrytwr3 said:
you've broken the ice from teacher to student. Ask now if you can see her jiggly bits.

j/k

Good on you for wanting to study and looking at the cheapest way of doing it!
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Thanks, I like finding a bargain :)
And I like studying so I have a good life in the future :)
 
webhound said:
12yrs? do yourself a favour lad, go play footy with your mates for a few years. PC stuff comes later when you have a wife and are bored
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???
I play rugby and badminton regularly & foot ball?
Why can't I????
EDIT: Not to disrespect you, but I like playing around with computers
 
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