“The Denver Public Schools in the sixties was the most amazing school system, in my opinion, in the United States. They had a way of introducing new courses as electives. If these courses were successful — I don’t know what successful means — they could petition to have it as part of the curriculum. All of the schools wouldn’t have to teach that course. They were experimental for three years.
“They came and visited and they couldn’t believe what they saw in the computer study hall. Control Data came and couldn’t believe what they saw so they gave us a computer for our community room. The kids who had been doing it for a while ran the computer and they allowed us to have a class of computer mathematics. Now there was no course on computer mathematics that had a textbook in the early sixties. For those of you who are older, you might remember computers started with punching holes in Hollerith cards, eighty-column cards, or tearing out, with a toothpick, holes in forty-column cards.”