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In grade school did you have macs or pcs?

Primary school had Win XP.

Secondary school is partnered with Microsoft so all PCs too, but only just upgrading from Win XP -> 7 (half the school is on 7 at the moment, rest in a couple of weeks.) Just in time for Windows 8 :D
 
We had a lab of apple II computers and then abou midway though the iMacs came out and we got a few of them. Maybe 5 or 6 and we'd all have to take turns on them. Oregon trail. Those were the days.
 
We had macs as the software licenses were a lot cheaper than windows for so many computers.
 
PCs, though there might be a few Macs here and there (some Seniors have them personally to bring to school). I doubt there are any Macs that are school propery though.
 
SumoHamster said:
This almost fits for me as well... except it applies to me in high school instead of grade school. We had some apple IIe's in the computer class I took, and there were no other computers in the school.. at least not able to be used by students.
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Middle school we used macintosh classics, and high school it was mixed between windows 95, IBM, Apple IIe and IIc, and various macs
 
We had Apple ][s, DEC Rainbows and a DEC PDP-11 that we used from grade school through HS.

I met Lisa in my junior year in HS and was undewhelmed and Mac the summer between HS and college. Throughout college I used the Mac labs at school and a Commodore 128D at home.

Does that date me? :p

FWIW, my boys are in elementary school now and are all Mac (mostly white iMacs and Macbooks).

B
 
Elementary School it was iMac G3s, Plastic White PowerBooks (now replaced by White Intel Core Solo/Duo MacBooks), and eMacs (now replaced by older intel white iMacs). The middle schools are Windows XP (Probably going to upgrade to 7 in the foreseeable future) Dell machines. In High School we have Dells on XP and 7, Aluminum and White iMacs, and a few teachers have individual computers that have Linux and whatnot. One of the teachers has both an Apple Lisa and an Apple Macintosh that he still encourages his students to use.
 
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Grade school, middle school, and highschool all use Acer PCs. Most run XP but a few run 7. However, our yearbook sponsor has 2 iMacs in his room for putting the yearbook together.
 
Elementary school: Apple IIe at first school, then Performas running System 7 at the other school.

Middle school: 5-color iMacs running OS 8.x

High school: mix of Dell towers running XP and Snow iMac G3s running OS9, later OS 10.3

College: variety of PCs (mostly HP) running either Win7 or various *NIX flavors.
 
I've been moved around a lot my whole life, been to more than a few schools. But the only one that ever had Macs was my first elementary school, They had just bought a lot of the brand new iMacs to replace all the PowerMac 5500's they had had for a while. I pretty much learned how to use a computer on a Mac. (though we had PC's at home I had used for a while before then, I actually learned stuff in school at the time. :p)

I remember a lot of the classrooms having various models, from more of the AIO PowerMac range, to the pizza box LCs and even a clamshell iBook or two. There was one special music classroom that had a few PowerMacs, but also had a functioning Apple IIe and IIc that had great music programs. (All the other kids hated these old school machines, but I was absolutely fascinated. :))

Alas, I moved away from there in 2nd grade, and I never went to a school with Macs again.
 
At my school, first were the teletype machines with phone-modem couplers.
Then came the Apple ][ & Commodore PET machines.
...
I was a sophomore in high school when the original Macintosh came out.
 
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