As a school pupil in the 1980s and early 1990s I found myself in the first wave of classroom computing.
My clearest memory of those early lessons was the "controlled drop", a pseudo-scientific method the teachers had of dropping our flaky BBC micros in the hope of reseating dislodged memory chips.
Nowadays schools are full of reliable Windows PCs that run faultlessly for years without the need for tinkering or dropping.
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