In message op.uc3y5tjn0v1caa@thedell, at 18:06:55 on Sat, 21 Jun 2008,
Brian L Johnson remarked:
My lunchtime activities were restricted to The Printing Club.

We had a printing club too, and I was member. We used to print school
magazines, programmes for concerts, and lots of posters. Everything set
in lead (or wood for the bigger stuff). All this experience came in very
handy when using some very early microcomputers as front ends to
phototypesetters, and other printing escapades.

Mind you, that interest has lasted me through the years as well. (I'm
a bit of a typography nut.)

I went on to take A-level Computer Science the very first year that
it was offered (by Oxford Exam Board) entirely self-taught.

Alas, not offered by my school in Leeds

It wasn't "offered" - I said "can you enter me for this". And they did.
I don't know when it became an official option, if ever.
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Roland Perry