Re: C65 Classroom Computer

From: Robin Harbron <macbeth_at_tbaytel.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:46:52 -0500
Message-ID: <6814a4f7-bfd4-1b0d-979d-2337a8a32db2@tbaytel.net>
On 2018-12-15 1:15 p.m., Mia Magnusson wrote:
> I've never heard of any school usage of Commodore computers except the
> usage of various PETs (and educator 64) in North America.

My elementary school (grades kindergarten to 8) in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 
Canada had a Commodore 64 in every classroom, and my high school had a 
lab of Commodore 128 computers. This was true of all the public schools 
in Thunder Bay.  The C64 computers in each classroom were in a metal 
enclosure that protected them from some abuse and also worked as a 
monitor stand, looking somewhat like a Commodore PET when set up.

I happen to have one of these enclosures, and I've been using it in my 
8-Bit Show and Tell series: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3gRBswFkuteshdwMZAQafQ

Or if you prefer to just see a picture, I tweeted one here: 
https://twitter.com/BedfordLvlExp/status/1066087142940704769

Perhaps the school board in my city would have been a customer for this 
Classroom C65. I wish, anyway, as I ended up buying many Commodore 
computers from the school board when they auctioned them off later in 
the 1990s :)

Robin
Received on 2018-12-16 05:00:02

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