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In grade school did you have macs or pcs?

Pencil and paper until HS.
In HS, Apple IIe, I think.

We had state-of-the-art tape players to store programs and one of the computers had a huge dot-marix printer connected to it. We were featured in the local paper for this high-tech equipment.
 
In grade school did you have macs or pcs?

No.😉

Computers when I was a kid had flashing lights and spinning reels and were at least the size of a refrigerator.
 
We had imacs, the bubble butt ones. I remember HATING them, but looking back I have no idea why, they are so much better looking than anything at the time.

Maybe it was the stupid programs they had us use...
 
elementary had macs, middle/high school all windows based pcs. Elementary school, and the movie blank check had A LOT to do with my segue into the apple universe
 
NT1440 said:
We had imacs, the bubble butt ones. I remember HATING them, but looking back I have no idea why, they are so much better looking than anything at the time.

Maybe it was the stupid programs they had us use...
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I was never really a fan of os 8 or 9.

os X is a god send though.
 
During primary (elementary) school they had Windows 98 computers, then Windows XP computers a few years later. In high school, they have all computer rooms with IBM computers running XP, and about 15 MacBooks and 5 iMac G5's in the art department.
 
We had Macintosh computers in the 80's at my elementary school. I thought they were really cool. I remember taking computer classes after school just to get more time on them. It was an expensive private school.

I'm pretty sure we had PCs at my high school, but I can't remember. I had a lot of fun in high school. 😀

My university had PCs in the library, and my grad school had both Macs and PCs in the computer lab.

At home, I remember having an Apple lle, and in the 90's we had a Macintosh Classic ll. I think we had an Atari ST computer somewhere in between. I was addicted to Dungeon Master.
 
My last year of elementary school, they got these things in called "computers." We didn't know what the purpose of these machines was, but it was interesting and felt "leading-edge." I guess the Commodore I played with at home felt more like a console system than a computer, so I never thought of it as a computer.

Black screen with green text FTW. We did typing classes. None of us cared much about the machine after the initial excitement wore off.

In high school we had some generic piece-of-trash PCs. I was a PC-user by then and knew that even among crappy PCs running Winblowz, they were on the bottom end of crappy.
 
I remember my first elementary school had the first iMacs and at my middle school we had a few of the plastic Intel iMacs.
EDIT: My high school uses all Dell PC's running Windows XP. A handful used to have Vista buy my PC Tech teacher had us downgrade since he hated it. There is one Power Macintosh Mirror in my the science department, but the teacher had to bring it himself.
 
elementary=dell
middle schol= imac g4 or g5 and ibm
high school (right now)= imac g5s and a few aluminum imacs for the teachers
 
Didn't have anything in grade school. After school I first used a Data General running DR-DOS, a HP/Apollo running Domain and a PC which was a 386-18. I then got a hold of a real screamer, a HP running HP-UX with CRX48Z graphics. The stand-alone graphics enclosure was about 2/3 the size of the CPU!

All the unix hardware I used smoked the PC's. They were not in the same league. All the unix apps were for heavy engineering and the PCs were mainly for lighter CAD and writing ascii text.
😀
 
In elementary we had the first generation (G3) iMacs. We had one G4, and every one wanted to use it, but of course, we had assigned seating. 🙁 I remember loving to play Bugdom on those things....

In middle we had a room of eMacs, and another room of G3 iMacs. In 8th grade, we upped that room to the white Intel iMacs.

Currently, in High School, the computer room has about 24 cheap Dells. The library has 5 white Intel iMacs, and 12 Dells, of which about 10 actually turn on....
 
Neither.

At home we had an Osbourne1. In elementary school, we'd go to the Jr. High where they had Atari 400's - bleh!

In Jr high, I learned to touchtype on an electric typewriter. I don't know what they did with the Atari's. High School had 286's.
 
We had all Macs, except in my HS Networking class.

In elementary school, it was Apple IIs and Macintosh Classic IIs (If I remember right, that was some time ago.) and HS was iMac G3s mostly.
 
Macs from Grade 1 to 12, in Kindergarten we didn't get computers cuz they were too expensive. From Grade 1-4 we had oldschool Apple computers PRE-Macintosh. I miss the open/closed Apple logos on the keyboards. I still refer the command key as Open Apple to this very day.
 
Primary School - about 20 or so iMac's (the colourful G3's)
Secondary School - about 400 Windows 2000 PC's and about 5 Mac Pro's (specifically for Media and Art students)
 
My primary school was BBC B's, I still own one set up at my parents house to this day!
bbc_b_m2.jpg

My first computer 😉

But my secondary school was a good 80-90% all Mac Classics, LC and a few of the then new PowerPC models as they were then. Other than that a few (even then) dusty and virus laden 386's in the IT rooms.
 
When I was really young(kindergarden and 1st grade) they had Mac...OS 8 or 9.


Then my next school was mostly PC(although I remember an iMac in the art room)
 
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