[NTLK] Sunburst Software

[Sylvain Pilet]

Doug is absolutely right,

But if Sunburst Communication still exists, then why not ask them directly if they do not wish to "donate" a license of their Newton version software to the Newton community and posterity. In any case, UNNA cannot host software that is not free or truly donated by publishers. It's not the two or three school teachers who could use a Newton that are going to overshadow their business!

Could one of you, from American friends, take care of this request ?


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Doug à entièrement raison
Mais si Sunburst Communication existe toujours, alors pourquoi pas leur demander directement s'il ne souhaitent pas faire "don" d'une licence de leur logiciel version Newton à la communauté Newton et la postérité. De toute façon, l'UNNA ne peut pas héberger des logiciels qui ne sont pas libres ou véritablement donner par les éditeurs. Ce n'est pas les deux ou trois professeurs

Est-ce que l'un de vous, chez amis américains, pourrait se charger de cette demande ?
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Sylvain Pilet

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> Le 17 nov. 2020 à 18:06, Doug Denby <ddenby at rogers.com> a écrit :
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> Perhaps I did not make myself clear on my earlier post about Sunburst’s Newton software. Let me clear it up, if I can.
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> The Student Profile package came in two segments: one for the Newton and one for the Macintosh.
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> The version I commented on was for the later Newton 2.0 version.
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> My first encounter with this software was on my Sharp ExpertPad, a clone of the original Newton MessagePad. I preferred the ExpertPad format and used Sunburst’s Student Profile on that unit for a couple of years. Walking around the classroom observing students and checking off their progress on my ExpertPad was a lot of fun.
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> Later as the Newton family increased in size, the shirt pocket became impractical and I switched to a holster that slung under my left arm and linked to my belt loops. Under a jacket, the students thought it looked like a pistol holster and began to kid that I was.a Narc. They all knew better, but it was great fun at the time.
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> Sunburst Communications still exists. They started as an educational software publisher for the Apple ][ and Pet computers. I did some software writing for them back in those days. This was, of course, in the days of MECC's (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) domination of the market. I visited MECC’s facilities in the 1980’s when most of their software was being written by and for elementary school teachers.
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> These were heady days with the question of how computers could and would be applied to education was not yet answered, and often not even expressed. Many programs were written to teach students all sorts of things, mainly mathematics. Some simulation programs were developed and we all know how far that trend has gone. Some thought that students should be teaching computers how to do things and thus BASIC became a standard course in many schools. During that time, I wrote a little Turtle Graphics program for the kids to use to draw things on the screen. That trend resulted in the Robot Wars so popular even today, although now it is in real time rather than pre-plotted.
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> Computers had been used since early days for record keeping of course.
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> My point here is that since Sunburst Communications still exists, they own the copyright and I am unwilling to copy their work. I am willing to give what I have to someone else, and what they do with it is within their conscience and moral limits.
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> Doug Denby