I love the Biorhythm program on my Apple II -- it sure was great for impressing cool hippie chicks.
An Apple (II) for Teacher
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Re: An Apple (II) for Teacher
#22> The promised clock chip was not ready in time
Oh the irony!
Re: An Apple (II) for Teacher
#23I was fortunate to go to a high school that got a single Apple ][+ in the science department for physics, and a grant to pay a student programmer to develop educational physics software. I was further fortunate to be the student programmer, which was amazing after spending the past few years punching FORTRAN IV and COBOL on cards using an IBM 029 and batching them to the school district's IBM 360 overnight.
Re: An Apple (II) for Teacher
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a single Apple (Packard-Bell) ][+ I'm curious what were you referring to here. Did Packard Bell make Apple 2 clones? I didn't find anything in a quick search.
They might be thinking of the Bell+Howell clone: https://www.oldcomputers.net/bellandhowell.html https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-bell-and-howell-apple-ii/
Aha, thanks!
Re: An Apple (II) for Teacher
#25My high school had two comp labs with a combination of IIe's and IIc's.
The first year the building was opened one of the labs was put in a carpeted room and it took a while for people to figure out why their programs kept disappearing from their 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.
In computer science class we were given a certain number of days to write and test our programs. If we finished early we could use the rest of the lab time to game. I used to plan out my projects and write them out longhand at home and type in and test my code the first day of lab to maximize my gaming time.
Lots of computer joy early in my life was thanks to the IIe and IIc.