Reply #63: No computers in public schools.

[Trillo]

When I went to public high schools, there were no computers for students; if they did have them somewhere, they were carefully hidden away in some special vault or cavern, with only a few having access.

The public and High School libraries at the time all had paper card catalogs.

I was lucky that a private school I went to for slightly over one year (around mid-70s had a computer room that was open to all students during recreation periods, it was mainframe based and the computer room had terminals). I started playing with some basic programs, trading off time there with time in the chess room, but then that school expelled me.

Public high schools had zero computers, so far as I could tell.