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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
We got an Apple II at our high school in 1981. We had a couple coveted blank floppies that we would hide from the business teacher. She was afraid that we would damage the computer by writing programs. For her, a typewriter was a high-tech gadget. So we taped the paper sleeve to the back of the desk and stored our floppy there. None of the teacher could teach us anything about the computer, we had to teach ourselves. The business teacher was no help, obviously, but the English teacher was enthusiastic, if just as ignorant about computers.
A couple of us were the go-to sources of information, it was sort of like being an oracle. Big fish in a little pond and all that. Really, all we did was read the manual.
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I remember teaching myself BASIC from the book that came with my TRS-80. Sometime later one of my teachers was trying to create a image of the characters from The wizard of Oz on the computer and wanted a character to have a blinking eye. She was amazed that I was able to help her work out that part of the programming. All I had done was to read the book as well.
