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Keith R. Williams  
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 More options Aug 27 2003, 10:35 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc, comp.object, comp.arch
From: Keith R. Williams <k...@attglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:13:14 -0400
Local: Wed, Aug 27 2003 10:13 am
Subject: Re: The gods of FP
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In article <biicvf$ru...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, n...@cus.cam.ac.uk
says...

> In article <3F4CB27C.60...@austin.rr.com>,
> Artie Gold <artieg...@austin.rr.com> writes:
> |> >
> |> > (a) 1969 is 34 years ago and (b) those would have been used for
> |> > senior students.  40 years ago, probably the only 11 year olds taught
> |>
> |> Yes. The machine had been in school a couple of years by the time I got
> |> to it in fall of '71. And I, as many in my class were juniors.

> Senior is relative :-)  I was doubting that either such systems would
> have been in schools in 1963 or that 11 year olds would have been
> taught to use them.  Even 1969 is pretty early for any computer in
> any school (as distinct from a university), and they had become a
> lot more widespread in the previous 6 years.

I was a Junior in high school ('68, IIRC), but we were using university
facilities (TAs, 360/75, class rooms, books, punch-cards).  They took
over the whole deal after the school board refused to allow them to
install a terminal on school property.  "If there is a computer in the
classroom to do math, the students won't learn math."  

--
  Keith


 
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