Re: Did anyone else go to a computer camp back in the day?

[patrick.asato@yahoo.com]

On Friday, July 20, 2012 4:40:03 AM UTC-7, addre...@invalid.invalid wrote:
> Apple2Games <dmiyares@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >  in Moodus Connecticut and was either Computer Camps International or New
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> > England Computer Camps.  I know there were other campers there... anyone?
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> Moodus!  Right around the corner from me. I did a little computer day camp
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> at the Children's Discovery Center in Westbrook Connecticut probably around
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> 1981 or 82. I was in between kindergarten and first grade and we worked
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> with logo on Texas instruments computers.  The bigger kids got to play with
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> sprites too. My teachers at school were impressed when I knew how to move
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> the turtle around on the Apple //e in the school library as a first grader
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> :).  I remember being pulled out of class to give the librarian a lesson
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> one day.



   Computer Camp!  LOL .  The closest I got to that was in California ,   going to Orange Coast College's Swapmeet ,   every other weekend ,  it had a room that was opended up on the college that taught how to use and understand the apple II computer!  But what I quickly learned was this was a hang out pretty much for the elite kids that had warez (unprotected software)  games ,  utilities ,  etc...  And were quickly breaking out blank 5 1/4 floppies and copying them!  But over all just chatting with the other kids on how to do things on the Apple II ,   made way for some very interesting converstations and opened up so many new doors for me!  Learned about he pirate world ,  and all the great BBS's that were hooked up .

 I wish I could do it all over again!  Was a blast ,  it seemed just what a kid would do back then!