Re: Re: Old School
By: paulie420 to Dux on Fri Jan 03 2025 18:52:00
> In my school district, we had all Apple II hardwares. I believe in much
> later years they had some Macintosh boxes and then the PCs came in high
Apple saw the opportunity in education and really dominated those sales in the 8
0s and 90s. I guess PC was just seen as too complex for that demographic.
At some point in the late 90s -- probably w/ Jobs' return -- Apple leaned hard i
nto to focusing on the creative types. Now based on the 'Apple Intelligence' com
mercials I see they're focusing on bored office workers who are trying to skate
through their work days...
The 'PC is too hard' thing reminds me, my parents sent me a nerd-camp at a local
college when I was in elementary school and middle school -- the modeled it aft
er college, you'd sign up for classes and move through the day between them... t
higs like building/launching model rockets, playing D&D -- my favorite aspect wa
s the programming. The college had a brand new building dedicated to computer sc
ience. We'd sit air conditioned labs working on IBM 5150's to create programs in
GW-BASIC, at the end of each session we'd print out our program and a sample ru
n on 11x17 green bar tractor paper to bring home, and save it to a 5.25" floppy
we were assigned, at the end of each summer we'd bring the floppy home -- I prob
ably still have a couple of them kicking around.
I'll admit we were all nerds, but if they could manage to get 20 4th graders to
boot PCs, open GW-BASIC, and build simple programs it couldn't have been /that/
bad...
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