[torontocbm] Re: Idea for next TPUG Meeting

  • From: James Alexander <james.m.alexander@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:22:46 -0400

Hello Joe,
I had no such misfortunes in school though they did think calculators were a tool of the devil. Even the electric typewriters could be used by grade 7 but nobody wanted to unless we had to. We didn't have to. The computers on the other hand were rarely left alone. 

joseph palumbo wrote:

>I remember being in grade 6 and using a PET in my sisters' classroom.
Grade 6?!? I had to wait to grade 10 in my high school till the teachers thought we students were finally mature enough to properly handle and treat with respect such a powerful machine as the 4016 PET computer!. After all, you couldn't touch the electronic typewriters until the second semester of grade 9! 

Joseph Palumbo

--- On *Tue, 3/10/09, Rick Towns /<rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:

    From: Rick Towns <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Subject: [torontocbm] Re: Idea for next TPUG Meeting
    To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Received: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:31 PM

    I second that! I remember being in grade 6 and using a PET in my
     sisters'
    classroom. The teacher (Mr. West) taught me to type in:

    M 0000 FFFF

    and I'd just watch all the numbers scroll by! LOL! Then he let me play
    Miner 49er! :oP

    On 10-Mar-09, at 7:19 PM, James Alexander wrote:

    > Hey Leif,
> > What if some of the PET guys did a PET/CBM thing for at least part of the 
    night.  I don't have any of this stuff but was first computer I used before
    I had my own and wouldn't mind seeing it again.  Keeping the P in TPUG is a<
    br>good thing.
> > Leif Bloomquist wrote: 
    >> Hi all,
>> >> Just to mix things up a bit: Would there be interest in an 
    "Other
    >> 70s/80s Computers" night at the March TPUG meeting?  (March 19th)
>> >> I've got some Tandy gear that's been sadly neglected, and I 
    know many
    >> others at TPUG have other retrocomputing interests but no venue in
    >> which to showcase
     them.  I for one would be seeing some of your other
    >> systems.
>> >> To keep it somewhat on topic, we could always compare/contrast them 
    >> with Commodore machines from the same era.
>> >> Comments, discussion? >> >> Regards, 
    >> -Leif
>> >> > >

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