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PROFILE 2022
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STORY & PHOTOS BY HEATH HARRISON, MARK SHAFFER
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he Ironton Tribune paid a visit to Ironton Elementary School, where some students were selected to answer a few questions on the past and the future and antiquated technology. The first item was a ZIP drive, a removable storage disk for a personal computer from 1999 that holds 100 megabytes of information Brynleigh Heighton, 10, fifth grade: “It’s something you put in a TV to watch something? Something for a nurse or a doctor?” Max Haney, 10, fifth grade: “I would have to say it would go into some electronic device. Maybe a computer? I’ve seen a lot of stuff that looks like this. I think you would put it in the computer and it would
Aubree Ison
improve it.” Brighley Heisinger, 10, fifth grade: “I have no clue… it looks like something I’ve seen before. Something for a computer? It keeps all your memories in it from your computer?” Myles McDonald, 9, fourth grade: “Looks like some kind of disk, I think it goes to a computer. My gramma has a very old computer that takes disks like that.” Aubree Ison, 9, fourth grade: “I don’t know… is it about someone’s health?” Trace Fraley, 9, fourth grade: “It is a computer disk… I saw where it said PC and a PC is a computer. It saves data.” The next item was a cassette tape, in this case a 1992 Denon HD6 100-minute tape filled with musical performances by
Leonard Cohen. Heighton: “A cassette tape? I think it was in fourth grade and somebody had made a bag out of cassette tapes and that’s how I knew what it was.” Haney: “Looks like a DVD, not a DVD… I forget what it was called. It is something that you would play.” Heisinger: “A tape? My dad has many of them.” McDonald: “I know the name… is it a tape?” Ison: “I’ve seen one before, but I forgot what they are called.” Fraley: “It is a tape for movies.” The next question was what was the oldest thing that they knew of in Lawrence County.
Brighley Heisinger
Myles McDonald
