Blast from the Past - Deaf Programmers From: Computer Magazine - 12/1981 - page 131 Trainer 3000, a system designed to implement low-cost training for IBM mainframe users is "helping us to pinpoint those children with abilities to work in the data processing field who might otherwise never have such opportunities", according to American School for the Deaf Executive Director Winfield McChord, Jr. The portable hardware/software package features the Apple II microcomputer and interacts with the students, letting them enter one answer at a time and indicating whether the answer is right or wrong. Forty-eight 10th, 11th, and 12th graders who are either deaf or hearing-impaired have done exercises in subjects ranging from basic arithmetic to trigonometry. Plans call for use in additional courses, and McChord believes the program will be beneficial in placing students in jobs after graduation, pointing out that some of them have acquired basic programming skills in just a few weeks' time. Source: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1981/12/01667216.pdf Link: Trainer 3000 Trademark http://www.legalforce.com/csr-trainer-3000-73336586.html