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Flashback to the earliest days of desktop computing, when the high school where this pilot fish is a student gets its first-ever computer: a Sol-20.
"One of the math teachers, Jack McCabe, had worked long and hard convincing the school to purchase it," says fish.
"Since the school didn't really know what to do with it, it was kept on a cart in Mr. McCabe's classroom, along with the little portable black-and-white television that acted as the monitor, and the cassette tape recorder that was for data and program storage."
Every day after school, a group of future techies gather in the classroom to learn programing -- which, for the Sol-20, involves a very primitive form of Basic. And because there's only one keyboard, computer time is first-come-first-served.
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