Nikola Tesla Charging his 1st Generation iPad

Nikola Tesla
Charging His
1st Generation iPad

CALL Haiku 俳句

Windows Update? Sure!

1% done ….. updating …..

DO NOT TURN ME OFF!

Happy 35th Birthday to Apple’s Original Macintosh

35 Years TODAY, Apple introduced … Macintosh!

Ah, those were the days! Where were YOU in ……. ’84!

I was just starting teaching in Calgary, and had started my long and illustrious ‘MacCriminal’ career by bluffing my way into Apple’s ‘Test Drive A Macintosh’ promotion! And the rest is hysteria, I mean ….. history!

Who needed more than 1MB of RAM, 1 floppy, 1 mouse, the single greatest clickety-clacky keyboard EVER invented …. and only a couple of nifty programs like MacWrite, MacDraw and MacPaint!!! I stopped using my Commodore-64 right then and THERE!!!!

A few great articles to take you down Memory Lane here:

Happy 35th Birthday to Apple’s Original Macintosh

Here’s what the Macintosh looked like when it debuted in 1984

Happy 35th Birthday, Apple!

Happy 35th birthday, Macintosh! Here are 11 wild photos from the 1984 release

Of course, I quickly upgraded to the Banana Junior 6000!!!

The CALL Facility – 30th Anniversary!

🎇 1989 to 2019 🎇
30th Anniversary of
The CALL Facility!

The CALL Facility was ….. UNLEASHED ….. upon an unsuspecting University of Victoria audience in September of 1989!

And the rest ….. is history! Having survived multiple renovations, multiple floods (The Great Flood of 2015 was the worst!) and multiple MEGA-technological advances ….. The CALL Facility is still here!

Throughout 2019 I will have ‘Retro‘ posts, showing how much has changed in The CALL Facility! And starting with the original ‘newspaper’ announcement of the opening of ‘The Language Centre’ complete with memorable quotes such as:

” ….. one is reminded of a scene from Star Trek.”

“….. a screen is lowered from the ceiling.”

“….. combination of networked audio, video and computer equipment.”

“….. and eventually CD-ROM, an emerging technology which allows huge quantities of computer information to be stored on a single compact disc,”

and my favourite …..

“….. there may be a temptation to use a starship transporter system to get there …..”

Enjoy reading the first ever article about The CALL Facility, and more classic ‘technology’ quotes below, as we were just a part of, at the time, “The Language Centre“!