Obsolete

     Every day at PTM I stay about an hour or two after the Summer SaLT program ends doing tasks that Chan, director of PTM, asks me to complete. These tasks include things such as entering donation checks into the record system or updating the Mac computers in the community computer lab. In the computer lab there are old Mac desktops, really old desktops—not as ancient as the colored Macintoshes—and MacBooks. On Thursday, Will, a PTM employee, and I were charged with installing a printer driver and program called Open Office on all the computers in the lab. Will and I soon learned that we were unable to accomplish either task because the computer software was too old. The software in the lab is Mac OS X 10.4 while the newest software is 10.9 Mountain Lion. To give perspective, Apple has created a vintage list and an obsolete list of their products. All three types of computers are too old to be considered obsolete! For example, I tried to YouTube a video on how to download Open Office and Safari was incapable of running YouTube. At this point in time, there is not much we can do with these computers unless PTM pays a considerable amount to install new software. The kids however still enjoy playing educational games which is what really matters in the end.