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I remember in second and third grade we had the same thing, except, we were running pentium 2 and 3 machines around 1998. Our school lab had about 20-25 pc's, a
by hanselot 6y ago
I remember in second and third grade we had the same thing, except, we were running pentium 2 and 3 machines around 1998. Our school lab had about 20-25 pc's, and all of them ran windows xp.
We filled every conceivable space on those machines with pirated copies of gameboy emulators and various pokemon roms.
It became a game of, will the computer admins ever realise, and if they do, will they do anything about it.
Long story short, they gave up trying to police it after about a year, when no matter what they tried, we always found another way to get the games back, in the process of course we learned quite a bit about computing (happy accident? Who cares, my love of computers started in that stupid class)
- topkai22 6y agoI think your memories may be merging over time. Win XP didn't come out till 2001, so it was probably win 98/98 SE running in your classroom. One of the things I remember about school computing in the 90s was how varied the equipment could be. My school had 2-3 computers per classroom, but 2nd grade had Apple IIs, 3rd grade had... possibly an Amiga?, and 4,5,6 grade had a mix of IBM PCs and one Mac, but with what ever OS originally shipped on them, ranging from straight DOS + Windows <3, win 3.1, and Win 95. It was wacky.
- hanselot 6y agoI think you are correct. It likely was 98SE. We were running the same OS at home. Sorry, I had discarded my Windows metadata long ago, keeping only the absolutely vital bits for dev work, and supporting people that were born a long time ago.