As an 1980's elementary school student, we had schools full of Apple II's. Now, a lot of them were the older monochrome models, but we had some color models, a

As an 1980's elementary school student, we had schools full of Apple II's. Now, a lot of them were the older monochrome models, but we had some color models, and a handful of them were the IIGS models. We had all the standard games like Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Carmen Sandiego, plus the typing tutors, Print Shop... We had a couple PC's here and there. Almost all IBM. They were a different experience. You didn't just stick a disk in and it booted up into your game. You had to deal with DOS. We had the PC versions of a couple of those games, but the PC's were more for writing documents, using the early CD-ROM encyclopedias, that sort of stuff. We had a couple Macs as well, which were used for the same things. Sure, we had Appleworks and all that, but the Apple II was for fun-and the IBM PC was for 'work'. I didn't have a computer at home back then, but my dream was a IIGS of my own.