This is a genuinely rare experience. Was it like old hardware on a shelf that no one knew what to do with and you tried it out? Or this was how lessons/clubs/assignments got things done, using an antique IBM tabulator?
When I started public high school near Boston in the early 80s we didn't have Apples or TRS 80s or PCs, it was terminals that used printed output ... can't remember the details, maybe DECwriter to PDP 11.
It was obsolete even when I was in high school, but the school had the basic set of unit record equipment - tabulator, sorter, collator, keypunch. Computers hadn't filtered down to high schools yet.
This is a genuinely rare experience. Was it like old hardware on a shelf that no one knew what to do with and you tried it out? Or this was how lessons/clubs/assignments got things done, using an antique IBM tabulator?
When I started public high school near Boston in the early 80s we didn't have Apples or TRS 80s or PCs, it was terminals that used printed output ... can't remember the details, maybe DECwriter to PDP 11.