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First Purpose Built Educational Computer?
First Purpose Built Educational Computer?
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IBM Experimental School’s Computer project started in 1966, and ended in 1970, after having built a prototype and several trial machines.
This was before microprocessors and used the IBM SLT technology that was in the…
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really interesting i guess it was cancelled because it was going to be too expensive. but what kind of schools were they planning to put this in like colleges or actual high schools with teenagers or younger. not to get off topic but i am relatively young but i want to school in the late 90s and 2000s but even then my teachers were very clueless about computers and my first school didn't even have any computers until the year 2000. most of my teachers were born around the same time they were making this thing. but these people never grew up with computers and avoided them as adults until they were forced to because of email.
Very cool – thanks for sharing… neat hack to simulate it this way!
You probably know we can't read the screen in this video; not a complaint, but count me as a +1 vote for another video where the screen is focused… would be neat to capture for posterity.
Never seen machine code with a counter in decimal, AFAIK!
I never knew this existed!