Ancestors

Toot

Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-13 at 21:08

Reading some other posts here today, I was reminded of the computer that “ran” my Middle School’s library: an Apple ][ with light pen (for scanning barcodes), and a custom software package.

If you ran the lightpen test in the program’s main menu, the package would more-or-less immediately drop to Apple BASIC, losing all of the day’s transactions.

Guess how I found that out….

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Descendants

Written by vxo on 2025-01-13 at 21:09

@artandtechnic was that the weird Circulation Plus thing?

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Written by Denis Warburton on 2025-01-13 at 21:11

@vxo Maybe? At this point, I don’t recall the title at all.

All I do recall is having to “lay low” for a while after owning up to what I did to the librarian. 😂

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