One Laptop Per Child? Pah!
I remember when our maths teacher brought an electronic calculator in to
a lesson and we eagerly queued up to have go.
Later we got a chance to send Algol programs on punched card up to
Imperial College -- we only had to wait a week or two to get a printout
back on green stripey paper saying 'Syntax error...'.
But my real introduction to computers was at Ewell Technical College,
where there was a machine called a Varian which ran Basic and Fortran
and another language called Tasc. The big advantage was that the yellow
paper tape used to store programs and data could also be used as
Christmas decorations -- try that with a USB stick.
Googling fails to find anything relevant about 'Varian' or 'Tasc' --
does anyone recall them?
'The Game of Life' on a teletype anyone?
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
