> I have fond memories of playing Spectre with networked opponents over LocalTalk. I was in a gifted programme in primary school in the early 1990s. The teache

> I have fond memories of playing Spectre with networked opponents over LocalTalk. I was in a gifted programme in primary school in the early 1990s. The teachers running it weren’t very computer-literate and expected the Macs in the classroom to only be used as a support for whatever non-computer-related intellectual activities. I got sent out of the programme back to the non-gifted classes for setting up networked Spectre and Bolo. They saw it as time-wasting gaming, but what fascinated me was that computers could be networked. I think that if I had been left to explore, I would have eventually been on the path to a computer science or IT education (and a much better salary).