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I remember when I went to sixth form in the early nineties they had a couple of the Archimedes machines around the place - but all the kids, and staff, used the

I remember when I went to sixth form in the early nineties they had a couple of the Archimedes machines around the place - but all the kids, and staff, used the x86 machines (running GEM IIRC) instead. I had a couple of friends at the time who'd owned BBC Machines, but most people had the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64. I never knew anybody who personally owned an Archimedes at all, and other than seeing them at the sixth form I never saw any at all in the wild.

DrBazza 4y ago
My school back then went from BBC micros straight to PCs as well (I suspect it might have been govt policy, or lack thereof). And the PCs then were awful compared to the Arch. Can't remember if it was an early version of Windows or OS/2, but back then the PC gui desktop was absolutely shocking in comparison to the Archimedes and Macintosh.