> I was lucky. Our high school system shared a DEC PDP-8. This was in 1974.

Luxury! (Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" reference)

In 1974 I was (the equivalent of) a junior in high school in South Africa. Back then we called it "Form 4", fwiw.

* Number of computers at high school: Zero

* Number of computers to which we had access: Zero

A friend and I joined the school computer club. I think we were the only members.

We were allowed to sit in on a FORTRAN IV programming course at the local university, and use their IBM 360/50 mainframe via golfball ttys. We were even allowed to write the exam, which we failed spectacularly.

We would have killed for a PDP-8 (if we even knew what that was, frankly). There was no such thing as "online".

"And you tell that to the kids today? They won't believe ya!"