lordkenmore
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That TRS 80 brings back memories. There were a few TRS-80s in use in schools when I went through.
My 8th grade general science teacher was Leo Christopherson. This is a name people who remember the TRS-80 might remember--he was a game programmer for the TRS-80. I think he was a fairly well known, once. In any case, I owe a lot to him--my first practical computer experience came in his class. The first time I saw a word processor was in science, when we were required to write up one lab report using the word processor. It seems to me we also used TRS-80s in at least one lab experiment. Contrast this to the math class I had that year which used the same TRS-80 lab--to run a program that was, for practical purposes, glorified flash cards. (This wasn't so much to teach us about math, from what one teacher said. It was so the school could pretend that we were getting "valuable computer experience!" Yeah, right. There is so much need in the real world for people who can effectively run a math flash card program.)
My 8th grade general science teacher was Leo Christopherson. This is a name people who remember the TRS-80 might remember--he was a game programmer for the TRS-80. I think he was a fairly well known, once. In any case, I owe a lot to him--my first practical computer experience came in his class. The first time I saw a word processor was in science, when we were required to write up one lab report using the word processor. It seems to me we also used TRS-80s in at least one lab experiment. Contrast this to the math class I had that year which used the same TRS-80 lab--to run a program that was, for practical purposes, glorified flash cards. (This wasn't so much to teach us about math, from what one teacher said. It was so the school could pretend that we were getting "valuable computer experience!" Yeah, right. There is so much need in the real world for people who can effectively run a math flash card program.)