Comments on: High School Computer Science: Then and Now http://www.allthebestbits.net/high-school-computer-science-then-and-now/ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:08:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Allan http://www.allthebestbits.net/high-school-computer-science-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-7627 Allan Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:17 +0000 http://www.allthebestbits.net/?p=30#comment-7627 Your back then is new, Back in 1971 in high school we had an HP-2116c and a TTY ARS33 but it had a rotary phone built in not a touch tone phone. This machine was available for the students to program (we could create paper tape via off-line (unconnected) TTY, or use mark-sense cards (meaning could use #2 pencil) because we bought the optical card reader, and in 72 we bought a high-speed paper tape reader. With the new tape reader we could bring up our computer to support 4 users on 5 minutes rather than 40 minutes via the console TTY. The reason we support 4 users is that we had three high schools in the district and 4 jr highs. All three high schools had a student tty and the jr each had a tty for a quarter of the year. We had the machine and I worked as an operator and graded one of our four computer science class (yes way back then). Our HP-2116c (which provided Dartmouth BASIC to the students) was called M.A.L.P.H. for Math and Logic Problem Handler. Your back then is new, Back in 1971 in high school we had an HP-2116c and a TTY ARS33 but it had a rotary phone built in not a touch tone phone.

This machine was available for the students to program (we could create paper tape via off-line (unconnected) TTY, or use mark-sense cards (meaning could use #2 pencil) because we bought the optical card reader, and in 72 we bought a high-speed paper tape reader. With the new tape reader we could bring up our computer to support 4 users on 5 minutes rather than 40 minutes via the console TTY.

The reason we support 4 users is that we had three high schools in the district and 4 jr highs. All three high schools had a student tty and the jr each had a tty for a quarter of the year. We had the machine and I worked as an operator and graded one of our four computer science class (yes way back then). Our HP-2116c (which provided Dartmouth BASIC to the students) was called M.A.L.P.H. for Math and Logic Problem Handler.

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.allthebestbits.net/high-school-computer-science-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Stephanie Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:53:00 +0000 http://www.allthebestbits.net/?p=30#comment-4 I confess to getting a bit bogged down in bleedle-bleep in this one. But I did want to note that Mr. Patton was a visionary of foot hygiene, and I support his campaign against the sock-free! I confess to getting a bit bogged down in bleedle-bleep in this one. But I did want to note that Mr. Patton was a visionary of foot hygiene, and I support his campaign against the sock-free!

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