My public schools must've had really poor funding because we didn't get a computer lab until I was in middle school. And then it was a bunch of C64s. Keep in mind this was in the late 80s and early 90s. Those were already considered obselete by then. I remember one classroom in middle school also had a computer, and it was that TI computer that you were talking about in this video. It had some educational games on it, but I don't remember which ones it had. Heck, it took until I was in high school before we ever got any fairly revelant computers. Heck, my typing class in high school still used typewriters!
My only other memory of that TI computer that you were talking about was I think our next door neighbor owned one. I remember going to their house sometimes as a little kid and their mom would let me play on theirs. One time she even hooked it up on their big screen TV in their bedroom for me to play. I thought that was really cool. The only game I played on it was Munch Man, though. It was, of course, a Pac-Man clone.
The only other big things I remember Texas Instruments for was they made a lot of calculators. And when my dad was done with his time in the military in El Paso, we moved to Dallas and he had two job offers. One was with Texas Instruments and one was with Mostek. He took the Mostek job. But at Mostek he made and sold circuits that were used in Atari game cartridges. So I guess gaming runs in he family, kinda sorta.
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