From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2022-10-30 09:35:28 +0000, Jan Poulsen said:   
      
   > On 29/10/2022 21.29, Ant wrote:   
   >> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)   
   >   
   > In 1980, I was a freshman at Davis High School in Kaysville, UT.  I had   
   > a maths teacher who was very interested in computers, and with his own   
   > money, he bought an Apple II which he brought to our school to teach   
   > computers.  We also had access to an IBM S/360, but it was a lot more   
   > cumbersome to work with, so the Apple was soon a favorite for all, and   
   > the school recognized the value of the computer class and bought   
   > another five Apple IIs.   
   >   
   > After a few months, I had learned enough about Applesoft and Integer   
   > Basic, that there wasn't more my teacher could teach me, so a junior   
   > and I became friends, and started learning Pascal and 6502 Assembler.   
   > Our teacher recognized this and asked us both to be tutors for students   
   > with difficulty learning the Apple, and as teachers for those who   
   > wanted more advanced knowledge of the Apple, so from early 1981 to   
   > summer 1982, my friend and I tutored, taught Apple Pascal and 6502   
   > assembler.   
   >   
   > As mentioned, our teacher was also teaching maths, and in my sophomore   
   > year, my friend and I were taking analytical geometry.  Neither of us   
   > liked all the work, solving the equations and creating 3D graphs of the   
   > result, so we decided to "teach" the Apple how to do it and then just   
   > copy the answers to paper.  And then ... we got found out.  We were   
   > both sure we would be suspended and have to retake the course.  But to   
   > our luck, our teacher understood that to program the computer to solve   
   > the maths, we would have had to fully understand it, and we both ended   
   > up getting 'A's in both maths and computer. :-)   
   >   
   > I still write programs in 6502 assembler, just for fun, and to keep the   
   > old brain cells working :-)   
      
   My first year at high school they had *one* Commodore PET computer that   
   was used by the office staff and occasionally trundled around on a   
   trolley to mathematics classes so students could see what a desktop   
   copmuter looked like (and weren't allowed to touch it). The school ran   
   a "job day" scheme to raise money for a computer room by doing jobs   
   like garden weeding, car washing, etc. for lcal businesses and   
   individuals.   
      
   The following year the school had a computer classroom full of Apple II   
   computers with good size monitors (not the little black and white   
   displays), rumouredly the largest school computer room in the country   
   or even Southern Hemisphere. I can't remember how many, but there was a   
   set of compuetrs on either side of two long tables, i.e. four rows - it   
   may have been 20 or 24. At the top of the class was a third table which   
   originally had the teacher's Apple II with had a network drive. Later   
   on the student computers each got their own floopy drives and there   
   were various upgrades over the years to Apple IIe, and a couple of   
   Apple III machines. Not long after I left it was the "bad years" at   
   Apple and I think they started moving to DOS and Windows PCs instead.   
      
   Similarly, when I went to univeristy, it was the first year they had   
   the main computer science lab full of Apple Mac computers. That was a   
   huge room with lots of Mac 128K machines (again slowly updated over the   
   years to various all-in-one Classic models) and a Mac XL or Lisa at the   
   door for students to book their timeslots for using the lab Macs.   
      
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