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Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate

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-=> Bo Holt wrote to Daniel <=-

 BH> In elementary, our school was also dominated by Apple IIes, but no
 BH> programming.  Just a bunch of MECC games.  In high school they taught
 BH> basic computer skills and typing.

Sad.

For me, the schools didn't have much in the way of computers, but we got access
to them (by hook or by crook) and learned programming on our own.  By the time
my high school offered a computer class (programming), several of us already
knew more than the teacher.

My dad taught computers in Jr. High and it was closer to what you describe:
Learn how to use the computer and was light on programming.

But it also reminds me of the types of computers.
When I started, the school had TRS-80's - mostly ones that the PTA purchased
for them.
Later, they all went Commodore PET - mostly because Commodore offered the
schools deals (I think it was a buy 3 for the price of 2).
It wasn't until much later that Apple realized that the computer kids use in
the schools are the ones that they ask their parents to purchase for home and
offered even better "deals" (i.e. they looked like deals, but Apple was palming
off their unsellable hardware).


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