Isuppose that I am an example of the people who youngsters read about in history books. When I was in my 20s, my husband took a computer course at Missouri Southern State University, which had recently acquired a revolutionary computer system consisting of huge equipment that required students to input data on large cards that were entered into the system. Several days later, the students could arrange to obtain the results.

In the 1970s, I was one of five staff members from Parkwood High School who traveled to Springfield to take a workshop on smaller types of computers. The class was taught by Radio Shack. By 1975, Apple computers were making their way into the Joplin School District but were restricted to use in computer and math classrooms. By 1980, my science department was excited t

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