Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:47:43 +1300I did too. We got shown punchcards, a little Fortran, and were sold calculators (a captive market?). The class was small.
Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as I can recall, the computer at Nelson College was more of a "status symbol" than something that was really used for educational purposes. Perhaps the teacher who related that to me was just cynical.
I did Applied Maths in Form 7.
I was better at Biology and Chemistry than Maths and Physics, and should have pursued them to Uni. That wrong turn put me off science for too long - a waste.
This was Mairehau, here in Chch.
<>One of the modules was Computing, so the whole 7th form applied maths class did some BASIC programming on it. Other than that if you showed a special interest you could use it on your own for "fun"
It was a bit of a status symbol I guess, you couldn't do any really serious computing. But you don't need to run complex programs to illustrate looping, arrays, variable assignment and other basic computing stuff. It was used as a teaching tool as I said above. And it generated some interest in the subject. Remember this was the 1970's - well before the PC.
The Apple ][ blew us away when we saw it demonstrated!
Rik
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