Retro Computing

Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969 (opens in new tab)

Thank you for sharing this. I remember using this model back in about 1976-77 at a school in Wiltshire, and I have been looking for it online for a few years. I programmed it to carry out something fairly simple… can’t remember what. The instructions were a single sheet of paper. The computer was very rarely used at the time, but it did seem to have had some use, as I remember the touch keys were worn down to show bare copper(?). The keys might have been light blue…

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