Write about your first computer.
My school had its own computer in 1963
It was a cause of great excitement
At least it was for some.
I couldn’t see the point myself
All it could do was sums.
It was a very big machine
And soon a famous one.
There weren’t a lot around just then
And almost none in schools.
So a school with its own computer
To some seemed really cool.
It was so big it occupied
A classroom to itself.
It took the whole of a science lab
With banks of flashing lights.
Something to do with binary maths
And lights flashing on and off.
They let us watch it do its stuff
Fed big numbers in it
Waited while it flashed and hummed
Spewed reams of paper out.
I couldn’t see the point myself
All it did was sums.
Our school had its own computer
It soon attracted fame.
It featured on Tomorrow’s World
The TV cameras came.
It caused a fuss
Bought fame to us
But all it could do was sums.
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