This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Re: Gilly Salmo article and reply to Stephen and Bill

Hi David,

Thanks for the video.

I used a mechanical teaching machine in my first undergraduate English
course at a Texas community college in 1972. It was a little more
sophisticated than the one in the video, but not much.

Using the machine meant that I did not have to go to class or have a
teacher, but I had to check the machine out of the library for a couple of
hours and return it when I'd finished. I used to take it outside and sit
next to a stock pond on campus (a former cattle ranch). That was [...]