In 1965 I took Fortran at night, in a classroom set up in a Boston office building. I figured the guy teaching it must be really old because he had a quarter sized bald spot on the back of his head. He told us this school had been set up because none of the "real schools", and there's a shitload around Boston, taught this stuff. This was the future and computers(with our guidance), would rule the world before the "real schools" caught up.
I wish I could remember what it cost. Couldn't have been much, not more than $150, and came with real soft bound books, although one was a mostly blank workbook. Figured that was a bargain to rule the world, and I was already making a list of people to execute.
