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Originally Posted by dr.ido
My highschool still had the ][es in use until around 95 or so. Only one had a color monitor, it was also the only one with a 3.5" floppy drive - I used to use the excuse that my "work" was on 3.5" so I had to have that machine. Towards the end most people were more interested in the Macs next door, so I could camp out on "my" machine as long as I liked. They were on a Digicard network. Each user was allocated a massive 32kb of space. I managed to fit a space invaders clone in my user directory, but most games wouldn't run under the network even if they were small enough. We carried our own stash of games floppies.
When I heard a couple of years after I left that they had replaced the ][es and Macs with PCs I tried to buy the old Digicard server, but I was too late. I knew the kid a couple of years under me that bought "my" machine - lost contact with him, sometimes wonder if he still has it.
The other highschool I had attended was once several seperate schools that combined and as such was a mismash of XT PCs, Mac Pluses, C64s, BBC Micros, a few Apple ][es, and even a few VIC-20s and Microbees.
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Up until the mid-00s the primary wing of the local elementary school still had 3 C64s. I was involved in the replacement of one of them (rolling out some PCs to every classroom instead of just the labs), so naturally I took it home... it became friends with my Commodore PC10 and generic 8088 clone... and thus my online moniker was born
It is funny because over the years I've occasionally found more 8-bit XT hardware in unlikely places and the PC10 is now tripped out with audio, a CDROM drive, two 20MB ST-512 drives, and I do have an ethernet card I have yet to get around installing...