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Re: Commodore 64 Ultimate

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DW> Sad.
DW>
DW> For me, the schools didn't have much in the way of computers, but we got a
DW> to them (by hook or by crook) and learned programming on our own.  By the
DW> my high school offered a computer class (programming), several of us alrea
DW> knew more than the teacher.
DW>
DW> My dad taught computers in Jr. High and it was closer to what you describe
DW> Learn how to use the computer and was light on programming.
DW>
DW> But it also reminds me of the types of computers.
DW> When I started, the school had TRS-80's - mostly ones that the PTA purchas
DW> for them.
DW> Later, they all went Commodore PET - mostly because Commodore offered the
DW> schools deals (I think it was a buy 3 for the price of 2).
DW> It wasn't until much later that Apple realized that the computer kids use
DW> the schools are the ones that they ask their parents to purchase for home
DW> offered even better "deals" (i.e. they looked like deals, but Apple was pa
DW> off their unsellable hardware).
DW>
DW>
DW> ... No, no, nurse! I said SLIP off his SPECTACLES!!
DW> ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52
DW>
DW> --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64)
DW>  * Origin: JoesBBS.Com, Telnet:23 SSH:22 HTTP:80 (1:342/201)

Sometimes I think back and realize we were still in the very early days of
microcomputing, and there was still no standard set yet, and no one knew just
how much computers would permeate our daily lives, for better or for worse...
I say for worse as that's why we still call BBSes, where it still takes more
than a pulse to use them LOL.

... Oh what a Grand Universe we live in....

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