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My schools in the 80s and 90s had computer labs full of macs too. They were terrible. Way too little ram, loaded down with student repressing software, and they
by smokey_the_bear 17y ago
My schools in the 80s and 90s had computer labs full of macs too. They were terrible. Way too little ram, loaded down with student repressing software, and they crashed all the time. At home, I had speedy packard bell, tandy, and dell computers. I thought I'd never buy a mac. But here I am, typing away on a macbook pro. Their computers have gotten a lot better.
- yesimahuman 17y agoAny chance that was At-Ease? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease Such fond memories :)
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoIt was At-Ease! At least in high school. I believe it could be overridden by holding down the shift key while booting. The most horrible memories are of making Hypercard presentations. It was required for projects for which it was totally inappropriate because the teachers wanted to incorporate computers in the class room. And the files always got corrupted and had to be totally redone.
- yesimahuman 17y agoI was just going to ask about Hypercard but didn't want to push it. I think we used a newer version on OS 8 maybe, but I had pretty fond memories of that as well. Maybe that was my first "programming" experience. I remember making a Zelda kind of game where you clicked part of the screen and it went to the next card. Really fun, but I totally agree it was overused and forced.
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoI remember using it to make the Earth revolve around the sun in a presentation about Copernicus. Good times.