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Answer of these question in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
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Solution
Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They were large and black and ugly and had large black screens on which all the lessons were shown and questions were asked.
These mechanical teachers had a slot in which the students had to put their homework and
test papers. They had to write their answers in a punch code and the mechanical teacher calculated the marks immediately.
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