[Marketing] [IAEP] The Guardian: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century

[Yama Ploskonka]

I apologize.  As a member of PlayPower, I will have to help them see
what is happening in Uruguay, that 400 K computers have been
delivered, albeit the issue of content useful for the classroom is not
yet solved there either.

On 11/8/09, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century
>
> Interesting. Though the challenge they have -- localising closed src
> binaries... to non ASCII-using locales -- is rather hard.
>
> Hard not to note the very misinformed description of OLPC in Uruguay:
>
> >Recently, the project made a group to provide computers for every
> >student in Uruguay, but after years of deal-making and political
> >machinations, it is still only making relatively slow progress.
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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