Did you take computer classes in high school?

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Number Munchers was a good Apple video game

I got out of high-school in 1989-1990 something. We had no classes at all. All we did was to run some sort of math program on a little known brand called "Compis" ("Kompis" basically means "Friend" in Swedish) that were totally incompatible with the MSDOS/Windows world. We also had 1-2 Apple Macs in school that we used to painting and such.

Then we had the gaming room under my classroom that had several C64s and C128s. I remember playing around with the C128 a few times, and before we had any computers at school (7th grade) we had actual typewriters that we learned to write on... At the time, i had owned 2 computers already (CBM Vic 20 and C64) and was using my first modern computer: Amiga 500.

"Typewriters?" you say - really lame i know, but they were still using typewriters in 1994 when i got out to my first internship (just after college and a short university course in business law), but the one that was using the typewriter was an older secretary that were the "old generation" and couldnt use word (2.0) that well.

I also remember people actually using faxes(!) from that time... the rest of us had discovered E-mail after installing Win32S on Win3.11 and some TCP/IP package + Netscape 0.9...

First sites i visited was Cern (obviously) and Wired.com (Playboy opened up in 1995 i think, but we had to look at that when most people had gone home).

And as they say: "the rest is history"...

I graduated high school way back in 1974 and took a computer class my senior year. All they had was a Model 33 teletype with a 110baud accoustic modem to a timesharing service.

Students would type in their program offline and generate a paper tape for the teacher (or one of his asssitants, like me) to run later. Programming language was Basic.

Never played that "Oregon Trail" game until maybe 2 years ago - you can download it here:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/23786 ... C+The.html


Note: not illegal - it's considered abondonware.

The apple IIe game i remember best was Karateka. Later machines such as nintento had it, but apples version was the best.

Hah. You youngsters don't know how good you've had it. I remember back in '65, laboriously constructing those first logic gates from cheap transistors. Practical Electronics, anyone? And then, at the end of '68 that first Fortran course from IBM...

Of course, I'd finished school by then.

No - I finished my "Diploma of the General Qualification for University Entrance" (Abitur) in 1984 - I went to a college with a high distinguish on technical matters, but this was more in respect of analogue technology and discrete boolean logic (with relays and transistors).