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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

Sun launches the SparcStation. Big fuss about multimedia, as CD-ROM becomes mainstream. Sun releases cross-platform Java language. Steve Jobs launches futuristic Next computer. 1989: Intel launches 486 chip, the first fast enough to run Windows. M/S ships Word for Windows. 1990: Windows 3.0 1992: IBM reports $4.87

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Clocks measure working hours instead of the sun. Thousands upon thousands of trainers attended conferences to learn about new approaches like programmed instruction, behavior modification, roleplay, certification, CD-ROM, sensitivity training. A little training went on, but there still weren’t any trainers.

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Instructional Design Opportunities In Energy Generation, Transmission & Distribution

Convergence Training

And back then there was this new thing called CD-ROMs. Because basically, especially in sunnier climates, I work with a guy who is based in Arizona, and he’s saying, in a place like that, where there’s so much sun, when a lot of people have their own generation of course, the utility will lose revenue.