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Re: remember when
« Reply #135 on: May 04, 2011, 05:24:49 AM »
I had in in year 9 also.  And in year 3 or 4 as part of special ed  because of my bad handwriting
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Re: remember when
« Reply #136 on: May 04, 2011, 05:29:29 AM »
I still never learnt to type properly, I use two fingers and am pretty slow at it. I never got along with my typing teacher and I didn't really learn anything in that class. We had electric typewriters though which were fun to use.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #137 on: May 04, 2011, 05:31:56 AM »
I failed it in year 9 and hated the teacher which had a lot to do with it.  Never felt I learned much either and I type with two fingers also :laugh:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #138 on: May 04, 2011, 05:36:07 AM »
I think I failed it too. :D Failed pretty much everything that year anyway. Changed schools for the next year and did a lot better.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #139 on: May 04, 2011, 05:37:29 AM »
TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

  YES!  I'd forgotten that!  Even when I first had cable in 1988/89, I remember certain stations would just show a test pattern
   in the wee hours of the morning, or they'd show hours of infomercials.  I miss the late 80s, they were dorky but fun.   :chin:
Yeah I remember the test pattern and really daggy muzak (or however it is spelt). Either that or just static.

   Static, yeah!  If you fell asleep in front of the TV and woke up at 2 in the morning, it would be all snowy!   :orly:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #140 on: May 04, 2011, 05:38:55 AM »
Well at least I was in good company :2thumbsup:

That year was bad I was in a very rebellious stage. that started in 8 and continued into 10.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #141 on: May 04, 2011, 05:44:09 AM »
  I remember computer classes at my high school.  I probably still have my floppy disk around here somewhere.   :nerdy:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #142 on: May 04, 2011, 05:49:38 AM »
And the only computers where in the special computer room in the library

 
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Re: remember when
« Reply #143 on: May 04, 2011, 05:53:26 AM »
And the only computers where in the special computer room in the library

 We had a special computer classroom filled with them.  Not sure I ever saw one in the library though.  :chin:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #144 on: May 04, 2011, 05:54:42 AM »
I had "natural science" in high school in the late 80's. We spent 12 hours in 3 years in the computer room.

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Re: remember when
« Reply #145 on: May 04, 2011, 05:55:40 AM »
Computer screens where green , amber or that kinda gray like a BW tv
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Re: remember when
« Reply #146 on: May 04, 2011, 05:56:44 AM »
I had "natural science" in high school in the late 80's. We spent 12 hours in 3 years in the computer room.

I think I was in there maybe 15 minutes they were for the Smart kids :zombiefuck:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #147 on: May 04, 2011, 01:47:20 PM »
shit, I graduated in 1998 and my school didnt have that many computers. It was also situated in the middle of a cow field  ::)

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Re: remember when
« Reply #148 on: May 04, 2011, 02:33:16 PM »


I remember the ones with a cassette tape instead of a disk drive. Mid eighties.

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Re: remember when
« Reply #149 on: May 04, 2011, 02:36:24 PM »


I remember the ones with a cassette tape instead of a disk drive. Mid eighties.

My brother had those. He's five years younger but was always ahead of me with technical stuff, except for explosives/pyro stuff. :nerd!: