[Info-vax] Confuse the kids!

[Mark Daniel]

On 21/7/17 1:33 am, Saifi Khan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 3:05:55 PM UTC+5:30, IanD wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 7:20:58 PM UTC+10, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2017-07-20 kl. 11:06, skrev IanD:
>>>> I tried to edumacate my kids by showing them VMS a few years back
>>>>
>>>> I showed them a VMS login and showed how when you typed commands the
>>>> system churned away and responded
>>>>
>>>> They looked at me typing stuff, doing a show monitor for less than 30
>>>> seconds and said "Meh, how boring" and walked off
>>>>
>>>> I managed to throw in a comment about that's sort of what your tablet
>>>> and phone does in the background but they couldn't care
>>>>
>>>> A few years before that I showed them a video of a large DC I had to go
>>>> to once and showed them all the servers lined up and even one that was
>>>> very colorful and had Google on the front of it - same response, they
>>>> were just not interested
>>>>
>>>> Very disappointing indeed :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can easily name 10 different things/jobs that would be very
>>> boring to me also... :-)
>>>
>>> Are your kids even interested in the IT technology at all?
>>
>> They don't see IT as an enabler or as a lever one can use to create new things from. They just view it as something you use, little more
>>
>> I guess I've been a poor teacher at showing the creative side of IT. I can show it with math (my first love!) but in IT my creative side is waning
>>
> 
> Hi Ian:
> 
> Could you please share information about, where one can get "free" access to OpenVMS system ?

https://eisner.decus.org

> Unfortunately, in my country there is no DECUS group/affiliated body, so i'm not eligible for OpenVMS Hobbyist license.
> 
> i'm deeply interested in programming and learning about Operating Systems. i have some knowledge of Windows NT, FreeBSD, Linux and SMF in Solaris.
> 
> Appreciate any pointers that you may have.
> 
> 
> warm regards
> Saifi.
>