[RKDinOKC]

We didn't have computer classes when I was in HS but I was one of the 3 students in the Oklahoma City public school system with login access to the school system main frame. Used a IBM typewriter terminal and an audio phone coupling. No CRT, just reams of paper. They gave us a whole 2K of memory space for our Basic programs and it was plenty. Yep, super nerd. Only instead of a slide rule I carried an HP programable calculator.

Even in college we HAD to use punch cards and I had a Apple II with a disk drive at home. That really sucked, they were soo behind the times.

The cool thing to do was to try to make your printer print like a typewriter, otherwise professors knew you used a word processor and didn't give as good a grade as if they thought you handed in a perfectly typewritten paper from a manual typewriter. The non-dot matrix, ball and ribbon printers like okidata were to die for.