Dover High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dover, NJ)

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Aida Orama speeds through a typing assignment on a new IBM programmable typewriter In the SAT Review course. Shelly Toscano uses the Apple II Plus computer. Below: Chris Fleischman and Dan Crnarich program the TRS-80 Model III in the Resource Center.

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... Rt Play Micro-computer chips are not only in machines with names such as Apple, Commodore, and Radio Shack. They are also in machines having familiar names as Pac-Man, Centipede, and Donkey-Kong. The quote all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is certainly true, and millions of people find recreation in video games. Many people identify computers with stodgy office buildings and scientific laboratories, but in reality video games are simplified high-tech computers. They provide hours of fun for countless numbers of kids who don't mind depositing their quarters, game after game However, you don't have to save up your quarters to swamp your mind with laser blasts and time warps You can easily buy home video machines such as Atari and Intellivision, hook them to your television, and play for hours Hundreds of thousands of these games are sold each year with new game cartridges coming out every 2-3 months. Don’t get the wrong idea though, because even this method is not cheap. Game cartridges cost approximately $30, and the game itself can range from about $95-295 So the next time someone accuses you of not keeping up with the latest advances in computer technology, go play a video game. Above: DHS wrestler. Mike Brink, puts the moves on DigDug Left: Sue Dallalah battles enemy forces to save the universe as Daniel Williamson coaches 7

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Sian Orl and Tijen Demirors, AFS exchange student from Turkey, ponder over problems in a computer class. We are living in a world which requires information and data quickly, efficiently, and easily. Computers are the answer for this need. Our generation will be in the thick of this computer age and computer literacy will be of the utmost importance. Dover High School is helping its students achieve this literacy with new courses such as Introduction to Microcomputers and Computer Programming in the BASIC language. The term BASIC stands for Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code. Other courses also have advanced technological equipment. Advances in office machines and automotive repair have been introduced into the DHS curriculum. Students working on these machines will have a definite advantage when going out in the business world. A general feeling is that our students are meeting the computer challenge head on. They can see their future and are working their way toward it. 9