Only a few understand the dopamine hit that walking into this classroom as a kid delivered.

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@BasicAppleGuy Though my era was the white plastic iMacs and then the aluminum retina iMacs in high school

[countablenewt@mastodon.social]

@BasicAppleGuy Then I found out that now they're using M1 iMacs and they didn't even get them in the school colors, just silver, which is a massive disappointment

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@BasicAppleGuy @jblake I’m way too old to have seen this in person, but wow!

(Think more Apple ][ era in secondary school)

Still pretty mindblown then.

[dfgomes@mastodon.social]

@BasicAppleGuy You were very lucky. I’ve never seen one in person. And I’m almost 51

[johnhood@mastodon.social]

@macfixer @BasicAppleGuy Achievement unlocked!

[garretble@mastodon.social]

@BasicAppleGuy I was in college when these came out. ☠️

[nschotschi@mastodon.social]

@BasicAppleGuy I had one in turquoise 🩵🩵🩵 1991, in my Kinderzimmer 🙃

[jasonm@social.lol]

@BasicAppleGuy man, I remember having these in our publications room for our newspaper and yearbook. It was so great.

[larsboris@mastodon.online]

@BasicAppleGuy for me it was walking into a room of TRS-80s. We had one Mac in the back of the room.

[robeeshepherd@mastodon.art]

@BasicAppleGuy Whoever ordered the colours on those desks is my spirit animal

[notthatkindofdoctor@mastodon.social]

@BasicAppleGuy
Fuck That. These stupid colorful pieces of
of shit that crashed constantly and pretended like you could edit video on them but really, no you fucking could not. Tortured me during senior year. No Mac I ever encountered during school did anything but make me hate Apple forever.

[josh@appdot.net]

@BasicAppleGuy Mine (in high school) were Windows 3.11 PCs (later upgraded to Win95) on a Novel Intranetware network and a few sad IIc's and a single Mac running system 7.

My 9th grade typing class was on IBM Selectric and Apple II.

[masp@wandering.shop]

@octothorpe @BasicAppleGuy @jblake yeah my secondary school had a single Apple IIe when I arrived, and I had to jump through hoops to get access to it! By the time I left we also had a lab with a handful of BBC micros and ZX spectrums, which was awesome! (my previous school had a solitary Research Machines 380Z!)

[mdhughes@appdot.net]

@BasicAppleGuy Mine was a single TRS-80 Model I brought in by a teacher, grade 4, best day ever, literally one of those comic book origin story moments.

Then a room full (half dozen?) of them and some CoCos in grades 5-8, then Apple IIs & Model IIIs in grade 9. Then my shit school gave up on teaching computing, but I had my own.

[chrisgervais@hachyderm.io]

@BasicAppleGuy Mine was a room full of Apple //e boxen. In college it was seeing a roomful of Mac IIci's with portrait displays.

[nygl@mastodon.social]

@chrisgervais @BasicAppleGuy Closest I had to a computer lab was in my final two years of school - about 20 Hitachi Peach MB-6890.