Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : scarface
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Aug 31 2025 11:24 am

  Re: Re: Hi all!
  By: scarface to Nightfox on Sun Aug 31 2025 09:27 am

 sc> I hadn't really even _heard_ of amiga growing up eh. a few friends had
 sc> apples which seemed rudimentary as I had already explored DOS and linux
 sc> quite a bit. In hindsight, I likely just haven't given it the chance to
 sc> explore it at the time, but I can still do today!

What kind of Apple?  I think the Apple 2 was a bit rudimentary compared to a DOS PC, though the Macintosh was a bit more advanced than the typical DOS PC when the Mac came out.

 sc> My high school had a couple of mac's we used in music class. the big
 sc> colourful CRT unit all in one things. iMac's? Basically only used one
 sc> piece of software on it, so I just .. acquired .. a windows copy. Majority
 sc> of my software on my windows machine in that day would have been open
 sc> source, soon to make the switch to full time linux.

The iMac came out right after I finished high school.  My middle school had beige Macs - they had a few with color screens in the library (I don't remember if they were LC, Performa, or something else), and they had some classes (such as my typing class) with Mac Classics (the small all-in-one with a black & white screen that looked like a refreshed original Mac).  My high school had a bunch of beige Macs of various models with color screens (LC, Performa, and a lot of the Power Mac 5200).  My high school also had a computer lab with some DOS PCs in it.

Nightfox
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