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Nah dog fuck apple , aka our school could not afford them AND those gay ass things were not out yet. School looked like THIS:Who went to a school like this?
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First programming I ever did was on one of those as my school was one of the first in DISD to have them in the math labs and I figured out the button on the far right top (which they taped cardboard over) would stop the math tutor, so my teacher made me learn enough to restart it. Which included a book on BASIC.
Of course her teacher workstation was the only one with DISK DRIVES. The rest of them had these :
Oh and that's the Model III, the Model I and II had keyboard separate from monitor....
And this showing my age makes this make more sense...
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We had Apple IIes in our HS computer lab. I remember those double disk drives, we needed them to copy the disks. People started passing around copies of my disks so I put password protection on them. I think we had like 3 computer classes. BASIC programming, then computer math 1 and 2. The computer teacher was the typing teacher because, you know, it had a keyboard so she had the qualifications. By the end of the first class the teacher was coming to me with programming questions. Computer math was still a programming class, but we were writing programs to solve the problems, so it sounds different from what you had. Other kids started coming to me to ask questions like how to generate a random number. The teacher asked me to keep her in the loop so she could learn this stuff too.
I don't even remember why I knew so much more than everyone else. Maybe it was from my experience with the commodore 64 that had no disk drive. Maybe there was a manual and I was the only one who read it. It had to be something, I doubt I figured it out by randomly trying commands and there was no internet.
Anyway, I think that was the last decent apple computer.
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We had Apple IIes in our HS computer lab. I remember those double disk drives, we needed them to copy the disks. People started passing around copies of my disks so I put password protection on them. I think we had like 3 computer classes. BASIC programming, then computer math 1 and 2. The computer teacher was the typing teacher because, you know, it had a keyboard so she had the qualifications. By the end of the first class the teacher was coming to me with programming questions. Computer math was still a programming class, but we were writing programs to solve the problems, so it sounds different from what you had. Other kids started coming to me to ask questions like how to generate a random number. The teacher asked me to keep her in the loop so she could learn this stuff too.
I don't even remember why I knew so much more than everyone else. Maybe it was from my experience with the commodore 64 that had no disk drive. Maybe there was a manual and I was the only one who read it. It had to be something, I doubt I figured it out by randomly trying commands and there was no internet.
Anyway, I think that was the last decent apple computer.
The Commodore 64 and other early computers were amazing pieces of technology and engineering for their time. I didn't appreciate it as much when I was 8, but watching youtube videos on how to make sprites, access memory, and seeing how much faster machine language programs were compared to Basic was a great chance to learn how to use your 64k RAM efficiently. Assembly language was neat, and made you understand why you had to code differently for different devices even if they had the same CPU.
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