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* School For Software

Posted on September 5th, 2008 by retrogeek. Filed under Comic, Load Runner, ZX Spectrum.

I really don’t know where to start with this one, it really speaks for itself. Part Jackie part Grange Hill, with the highly implausible premise that there’s a “girl” into computers. Mr. DIckerson is particularly troubling, dodgy jacket, moustache, cheap wig - yup. pretty much how I remember my teachers from the 80s…

Rebel Pupil Bev Jeavons has had her program for the school software competition wiped out by the form computer creeps. but she has chosen the wrong moment for revenge…

fighting over time on the school zx spectrum

Nice product placement from Imagine Software

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18 Responses to “School For Software”

Lord Manley Says:
September 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

More!

jono Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 11:46 am

Yes more please, you can’t leave us hanging like that!

skye Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

To be continued it says! you can’t leave us hanging!

Michael Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

How will Bev keep her strip of silvery printout away from the lesbian bullies? We need to know!

This story is a great reminder of the hardships we had to put up with in those days: competing for time on the school computer (singular), and seeing how much time you could spend on the machines in the computer shop before the owner got fed up with you. More please!

John H Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

“I can’t stop you taking Computer Studies, but I’ll make sure you don’t have time on the Spectrum.”

- they don’t make threats like they used to, do they?

Pedro Says:
September 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Fantastic - I think I’m in love - reckon Bev’s on Facebook? Also, the teacher looks EXACTLY like the former head of maths who used to run Computer Club. Who’s now - and I’m not making this up - inside for interfering with young boys. Great, innocent days!

FinkAngel Says:
September 11th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

Holy God, in my middle school computer class you were extremely lucky if you got one of the three Speccies by the window…towards the back of the class it was mostly ZX81s, and if you were really late it was relegation to the huge black “research machine” donated by a local university that even the teacher had no idea how to use…

Ah…memories…

Nick Says:
September 12th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Bev looks a bit like Billie Piper

more like exactly Says:
September 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am

why you always hanging around using demonstration zx spectrums?

BECAUSE WE WANT TO

10 Goto Continue Strip

targetlad72 Says:
September 13th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

I’m hooked!

Next Time : The class is in uproar after Tracy cheats on Horace Goes Sking!!

VMOS Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am

OH NOES! ZX bullys!

Fatlad Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

ZX81’s, you lucky buggers, RML380’s when i was at school!

Codger Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

You lucky bastards. I’m from an era when the idea of computers in the classroom wasn’t even science-fiction; it was that far-fetched.

I do remember “photo stories” though. But they usually had less (ie. no) clothing after the first page. And they had likelier scenarios. I mean, a *girl* in computer class?