You, too? My high school had an 11/34 back in the day, with a couple VT100s, several Visual 200 terminals (cheap junk), one DECwriter II for the console, and another one plus a DECwriter III in the lab. It also ran RSTS/E, and in the summer after my sophomore year they offered a short introductory course. I was hooked. We didn't have any Fortran courses, though, just BASIC+ and COBOL.

I'd take even a DECwriter II over a Teletype, but the III made the II look downright slow, with a 4x faster printhead, the ability to seek quickly, and the ability to print in both directions to avoid wasted motion.