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SueG 
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Posted 30 January 2004 - 11:28 AM
OK, I was going to ignore this thread, but that school district is hard to understand.
When we got an iMac here at home in '98, it was a good chance to teach the kids something about networking - my adolescent networked the iMac and the Quadra with no problems.
Our school district had networked computer labs already by '98 (admittedly, networking the buildings was slower). Schools don't want kids bringing in diskettes from home, even the PC labs require them to leave the diskettes there. Macs are the simplest things to network, the teachers could be easily trained, indeed administering discreet machines would be considerably harder.
When we got an iMac here at home in '98, it was a good chance to teach the kids something about networking - my adolescent networked the iMac and the Quadra with no problems.
Our school district had networked computer labs already by '98 (admittedly, networking the buildings was slower). Schools don't want kids bringing in diskettes from home, even the PC labs require them to leave the diskettes there. Macs are the simplest things to network, the teachers could be easily trained, indeed administering discreet machines would be considerably harder.
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mr.steevo
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Posted 30 January 2004 - 11:55 AM
Hi,
Just to stir the pot...
I looked at the back of my office computer, an IBM pentium MMX with a sticker on it exclaiming "Designed for Windows 95" with two USB ports on the back. This computer came out in '96-'97 I am guessing? Surprised me that it has USB.
As for the floppy issue: When I was in school in '97 there were only a few of us who didn't use floppies but after the iMac came out just about everyone I new started emailing papers to themselves rather than carry around a disk... and the weird thing is that this school DIDN'T have iMac computers in the labs. I guess not using disks just caught on.
s.
Just to stir the pot...
I looked at the back of my office computer, an IBM pentium MMX with a sticker on it exclaiming "Designed for Windows 95" with two USB ports on the back. This computer came out in '96-'97 I am guessing? Surprised me that it has USB.
As for the floppy issue: When I was in school in '97 there were only a few of us who didn't use floppies but after the iMac came out just about everyone I new started emailing papers to themselves rather than carry around a disk... and the weird thing is that this school DIDN'T have iMac computers in the labs. I guess not using disks just caught on.
s.
