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Our high-school had a B 5500 for the school district's administrative functions and it eventually was also used to teach students software development (the cour
by smoyer 5y ago
Our high-school had a B 5500 for the school district's administrative functions and it eventually was also used to teach students software development (the course was titled Computer Math and taught by the same teacher I had for statistics). Naturally, having students on the same system where their grades were stored led to some interesting "events". I also remember one of the kids (a fast typist) entering SpaceWars into the system.
We had 10 card punch stations and ten glass terminals in our classroom which was adjacent to the room housing the computer. I don't remember seeing a separate operator's terminal but there was definitely the field tech cabinet described by 4x5-Guy.