I hate to admit it Aaron but my first classroom "computer" experience in the classroom was with a System80 learning system. It was probably in 1971 or so. Not every school had one. Our school district had them at the special education center. They rounded up students and we went on "field trips" to the center to use the System80. How they worked was just as you said, filmstrip and record with interactive input from the five buttons below the screen. The punchcard "software" was physically big and pretty robust. It had a strip of 35mm microfilm in the middle for the images and punchings for the software. Audio provided through headphones to user. The record had aux tones in the audio to advance the software based upon the student's input through the keyboard. It was a clunky system but at the time it was innovative. For me, I found the device much more fascinating than the lessons. I was regularly scolded for exploring the device, trying to open it up and not doing the lesson. While my classmates thought it was a TV, I didn't buy it. I knew it was more akin to my dad's film projector than our TV I'd seen him often replacing the tubes in. In the end, the System80 taught me more as a curious electronic device than any of the lessons did. Thank you again for your project and museum. It will be very fun to see when it is up and running. It will be worth a destination trip to see.
I remember using that System80 way back in 2nd grade. Just seeing it brought back a flood of memories, and it being so long ago id forgotten the name completely. I had been trying to remember that name for years to look it up on the internet. There is a video here on RUclips that shows one in operation by HyperPolaris the video is named Borg Warner System 80 Education System. I can remember using it as if it were yesterday. Thanks Aaron and crew for bringing back a long lost memory.
We had TRS-80 Models 3 and 4 in our computer class in Orlando, Florida. I've been looking for copies of the books we used in class back in the mid 1980's.
First game I played on a computer was either of the following (cant quite remember): marble madness on the Amiga at my friends house in 86 OR an apple II game where you wander around a town drawn with rudimentary line art solving educational puzzles at each location.
I can't remember the name of the first game I played in school. I am from the UK, and the first school computers we had were BBC Micros. I was a shy child and had to be cajoled into going along to the after school club which my brother had already been to, where we could do various activities such as playing with the computers, learning a bit of rudimentary French in preparation for high school or play table tennis (needless to say I enjoyed it a lot and was glad that I eventually went). The game was a text adventure ("Looking north you see a tree" etc.) but probably had a few simple pictures as well. A couple of years later in the early 90s we had an exciting look during a lesson at the Acorn Archimedes, an impressive 16-bit machine from the same company that produced the BBC Micro. It's smart GUI reminded me of pictures I'd seen of Macintosh displays in magazines, and I think we were shown a paint program, though the most abiding memory was of people playing SWIV.
Unfortunately my first PC game wasn't in a classroom. For whatever reason, my private school, for all the money they were receiving, didn't get into computers while I was there 4 grade levels in early 80s. I did play Oregon trail on a friend's C64, and, fell in love with Sierra on a display model of a Z100(i think), green monochrome CGA version of King's Quest ][ at a PC sales shop my mum worked at.
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I hate to admit it Aaron but my first classroom "computer" experience in the classroom was with a System80 learning system. It was probably in 1971 or so. Not every school had one. Our school district had them at the special education center. They rounded up students and we went on "field trips" to the center to use the System80.
How they worked was just as you said, filmstrip and record with interactive input from the five buttons below the screen. The punchcard "software" was physically big and pretty robust. It had a strip of 35mm microfilm in the middle for the images and punchings for the software. Audio provided through headphones to user. The record had aux tones in the audio to advance the software based upon the student's input through the keyboard. It was a clunky system but at the time it was innovative. For me, I found the device much more fascinating than the lessons. I was regularly scolded for exploring the device, trying to open it up and not doing the lesson. While my classmates thought it was a TV, I didn't buy it. I knew it was more akin to my dad's film projector than our TV I'd seen him often replacing the tubes in. In the end, the System80 taught me more as a curious electronic device than any of the lessons did.
Thank you again for your project and museum. It will be very fun to see when it is up and running. It will be worth a destination trip to see.
I remember using that System80 way back in 2nd grade. Just seeing it brought back a flood of memories, and it being so long ago id forgotten the name completely. I had been trying to remember that name for years to look it up on the internet. There is a video here on RUclips that shows one in operation by HyperPolaris the video is named Borg Warner System 80 Education System. I can remember using it as if it were yesterday. Thanks Aaron and crew for bringing back a long lost memory.
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We had TRS-80 Models 3 and 4 in our computer class in Orlando, Florida. I've been looking for copies of the books we used in class back in the mid 1980's.
First game I played on a computer was either of the following (cant quite remember): marble madness on the Amiga at my friends house in 86 OR an apple II game where you wander around a town drawn with rudimentary line art solving educational puzzles at each location.
I can't remember the name of the first game I played in school. I am from the UK, and the first school computers we had were BBC Micros. I was a shy child and had to be cajoled into going along to the after school club which my brother had already been to, where we could do various activities such as playing with the computers, learning a bit of rudimentary French in preparation for high school or play table tennis (needless to say I enjoyed it a lot and was glad that I eventually went). The game was a text adventure ("Looking north you see a tree" etc.) but probably had a few simple pictures as well. A couple of years later in the early 90s we had an exciting look during a lesson at the Acorn Archimedes, an impressive 16-bit machine from the same company that produced the BBC Micro. It's smart GUI reminded me of pictures I'd seen of Macintosh displays in magazines, and I think we were shown a paint program, though the most abiding memory was of people playing SWIV.
Would Logo count as a game? Used that on the BBCs
I think my first game in school, was Lemonade Stand on Apple IIe
Unfortunately my first PC game wasn't in a classroom. For whatever reason, my private school, for all the money they were receiving, didn't get into computers while I was there 4 grade levels in early 80s. I did play Oregon trail on a friend's C64, and, fell in love with Sierra on a display model of a Z100(i think), green monochrome CGA version of King's Quest ][ at a PC sales shop my mum worked at.
Your school had computers in the early 80 but my school did not even have it until around the year 2000.
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