I found some more info about the more recent computers (that my age group would have had in high school; had they been in Denmark).
These are impressive; although they are similar in capabilities to the BBC Microcomputer of the UK they were also closer to computers the student would encounter once they had finished high school and gone to work or attended University.
The BBC micro and associated embedded systems were highly associated with education and specialist scientific environments; whereas in business CP/M and the early MS-DOS computers (as well as terminal servers connected to ancient old mainframes!) would be more commonly encountered.
Danish kids (and some in Ireland and Scotland) were taught COMAL rather than BASIC; which introduced structured programming far earlier).
I was curious about how they dealt with the [] and {} being absent from their keyboards ( Å Ø took their place) ) as these are widely used when programming computers today; but forgot that C (uses all of them and you must get them in the right order or nothing works) wasn’t as common back in the 1980s, the cleverer students would have gone straight from COMAL to assembler (or used elements of both for each program module) and square/curly brackets are less common in assembler code.
RC759 PICCOLINE – Start
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM musem ~ Regnecentralen RC759 Piccoline
There are links to an RC700 emulator (with a lot of documentation in English – I think these computers were sold to some English speaking countries)
COMAL can still be downloaded today as a FOSS project (I agree with the Dutch dude who created the project that it is still a good educational language but we are probably of an older age just before object oriented programming (which I still do not understand 100% took off)
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