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Back in the 80s I took a summer school class offered by the district in 'computer programming' which was about half logo half applesoft basic. The school even had a little 'turtlebot' driving pen plotter bot, tethered to one of the //e's by what I assume was a serial cable.

If your logo program was particularly cool the teacher would print your program out on the little dot matrix printer and project it up on a screen using an opaque projector and step through it line by line while the little robot drew it out on a piece of butcher paper.

Probably one of the early experiences that made me love pen plotters.



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