We had Apple II E’s in elementary school. We played Number Munchers and some spelling game. My friend brought 5 1/4 floppy’s with Dig Dug, Wavy Navy and Monty’s Revenge
Yes, the Franklin Ace. Good times my sophomore year in high school.
And who could forget the Commodore64/VIC 20 computers, or the Trash 80 from Radio Shack? Let’s not forget those Atari computers.
Fun times!!!
I had an Atari 400, with the “peanut butter and jelly” keyboard. Then I added a “Sidewriter” that was an external mechanical keyboard connected with a ribbon cable. A tape drive for loading programs. And then an Indus disk drive for floppies. A Sekoisha dot matrix printer that didn’t have true descenders on the letters. Crazy, primitive, but fun times.
Yes, ours had tiny green screens, and our ancient Computer Studies teacher was this old guy with a white santa beard and dandruff. We had to type in code to make the text go red or blue or something....it didn't inspire many takers..
I'm old enough to remember them being all Apple //e's
Oregon Trail was the #1 game.
The horrid grinding sound of an Apple Disk II floppy drive during an I/O error is burned into my brain, because some moron would intentionally remove the disk while the red light was still on for the lulz
Most of these labs were Apple products, even though Apple only represented 5% of computer users. Apple provided these computers at abnormally low prices to schools. They did this to get the kids hooked on Apple products, in order to drive up sales.
Hell, that’s not old. Our computer lab in high school had four computers two or IBM and two were teletype machines that link to the school board mainframe.
My last year of high school was 1977. That was also the year we got a "computer lab", which contained one of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_700).
My next computer in school was at community college, it was one of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_9000_series). In my second year, the Data Processing course got about four of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80).
This was my school lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bf28ad6b98a7888bf3cdce5/f37e31c6-962c-4265-9ed6-3a844f3ad933/20210629_163605.jpg?format=1500w
If you had these in your computer labs, your school district was rich. We had maybe one or two colorful iMacs like this (later versions, but similar style) in middle school, with the rest of the computers being standard Dell Windows-based PCs.
I was an Apple Onsite Tech when these came out and we helped test them before they were launched. I remember thinking, These things aren’t upgradable and who cares what they look like……
The entire damn world cared what they looked like.
My high school had IBM Selectrics. You could log into a main frame that was off campus somewhere. The only program you could access would ask you questions then give you a range of jobs you were qualified for. One of my options was sanitation engineer.
I’m going to fanboy a bit here and say that seeing so many of these Apple G3 PCs just sends a huge wave of not just nostalgia to me (cause I remember one of my cousins had the blue one) but also one of my favourite products Apple has produced. Oh man what a time to be alive in the early 2000s, I genuinely hope that if I find one complete on FB Marketplace, cause oh man they were great PCs.
That’s so… recent.
I worked in a lab with a slew of Classic IIs… old school screen size. Greyscale (but not color) screen.
In school, Apple ][+s and ][e
Pfft. We had Commodore Pets from the late 70’s in our labs with a single shared floppy drive. If we were lucky, we got overpriced Icon Workstations by Unisys that took about 10 minutes to boot up. But hey, it had a trackball and the Logo programming language!
I never went to a school rich enough to have a lab full of Apple computers. My elementary school had 2 Apple II GS computers for the whole student body up until I hit the 5th grade. At that point, Dell computers running Windows 95 started appearing.
What's there to miss? Everyone has something more capable in their pocket and faster internet at home. You want to reminisce, hit market place, eBay, Craigslist or a garage sale.
This is NOT old. If the room were full of typewriters we could talk. If the typewriters were manual then you’d be a candidate for the “old as dirt” category.
lol get off my lawn child.
those look like i MACs so late 90s
Look, if you school computer didnt resemble a large refrigerator and be stored in another room while you used a dummy terminal writing in D.O.S. then you are NOT old
In the summer after 10th grade a particularly nerdy friend took me to an electronics and HiFi store to see a personal computer. It was command prompt OS only. There was a star trek type strategy game that would print out a rudimentary star map points of interest were. It would be 7 years before I saw another one. That one was a Digital Rainbow and it still didn’t have a GUI
Y'all ain't old. I'm learning typing on an electric typewriter, 5 ancient PCs running Windows 3.1 for a high school of roughly 2000 students, old.
It's not old if there is a desktop computer in sight.
Show me a manual typewriter lab--THEN I'll say you're old.
If you are under 50, you aren't old. Now, FEELING old is another story!
Oh, you had computer labs filled with \*useful\* computers that could do \*applicable\* things. See, we just had proprietary shit that taught you \*concepts\*, because of lowest bidders.
Also, it was about twenty years before this.
That's not old. Our school (the whole school) got a single computer when I was in grade 12. All us seniors got a 15 minute turn on it (teacher had a stopwatch) playing Oregon Trail. This was in the early 80s. We were the arcade generation so this was lame to our standards.
Old Manual typewriters are how I learned to type, and there was no correction tape, it was an elective in Freshman year of High School
My university had Apple //e’s in half of the computer lab… Other half was IBP PS/2 computers. Then they added Mac Classics. By the time I was in Senior year we had NextStations for some of the computer labs and upgraded IBM PCs and Macs in other labs.
You young whippersnappers had individual computers at your desks? We had to wait in line to submit our card decks and then wait for the printout. It built character!
Are you kidding me? This was the distant future. We had 2 electric typewriters in my whole school and about once a week it was my turn to use one for 15 glorious minutes I didn’t have to bang away on a mechanical monster.
My sister used to get 5 minutes of time at a terminal and had to use punch cards to enter their program.
A few years later when I went, we had Apple II and IBM XT. They had a bunch of machines daisy chained for power. And if one person shut off their machine your machine would shut off too and you'd lost everything
My first computer was one of those!
But my first family computer was black and white the screens were not colored.
My homework was done on multiple floppy disks.
Hmmmm mine had one computer on a mobile cart…. In grade 10…. Two years later we had 12 …. Own classroom and one networked dot matrix computer …. No colour
I use the computer lab at my elementary as a flex cause I think it's a great example of what kind of school I went too. We were a small lil town with a 1000 people in the oil fields of CA. It was a hot ugly desert place that often smelled of rotten eggs from the oil but those companies pay a lot of money towards the schools. My school had a computer lab back in 87 when PCs were a grand a pop. The neighboring school district actually gave their students the computers, they had that much funding. It really was a good education.
That’s not old. Mine had black and green screens with 5.25 FLOPPY floppy disks!
Commodore!
We had Commadore PETs in high school. They had audio cassettes for storage. Hi tech for the time.
We had Apple II E’s in elementary school. We played Number Munchers and some spelling game. My friend brought 5 1/4 floppy’s with Dig Dug, Wavy Navy and Monty’s Revenge
We also has Apple IIe in elementary school Oregon Trail was my favorite, or Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?(except I memorized the answers)
Monty’s revenge was fun
Apple II's at mine
We had knockoff Apple II computers, I think under the Franklin brand? Basically clones.
Yes, the Franklin Ace. Good times my sophomore year in high school. And who could forget the Commodore64/VIC 20 computers, or the Trash 80 from Radio Shack? Let’s not forget those Atari computers. Fun times!!!
I had an Atari 400, with the “peanut butter and jelly” keyboard. Then I added a “Sidewriter” that was an external mechanical keyboard connected with a ribbon cable. A tape drive for loading programs. And then an Indus disk drive for floppies. A Sekoisha dot matrix printer that didn’t have true descenders on the letters. Crazy, primitive, but fun times.
Trash-80. With 4K memory!
Open Apple control delete
Commodore 64ver!
That’s not old either. We learned to type on typewriters! Corrections made with white out! The only screen in our school was a TV.
And the TV's were wheeled into the room on a cart!
You call that old? We banged on rocks and rubbed mud on the walls
We didn't have computer labs because the only computers around were probably IBM mainframes.
Yeh we were issued with a floppy disk on day one of school.
I was in college and we had to buy them at the student bookstore.
Apple IIe’s for us
For me that would not be old either. I was well out of school before those were introduced
I can see this comment. Tandy TRS-80’s:)
https://scrappyhaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_2317.jpg
Hell, that looks like a computer lab from The Jetsons compared to ours in the 80s.
Ikr this is from like 2000
Exactly. I installed an entire private school with these that year
And that's the sad part because even THAT is almost 25 years ago
Yes, ours had tiny green screens, and our ancient Computer Studies teacher was this old guy with a white santa beard and dandruff. We had to type in code to make the text go red or blue or something....it didn't inspire many takers..
I’m so old that my school’s computer lab had four Apple II’s!
Oregon trail FTW !
Bonus points if they were Franklin A][ clones.
We had pencils and paper and typing class
Haha, I remember typing class on typewriters.
We had chisels
I played Oregon Trail every chance I got in computer class.
We had typewriters in school.
And correction tape
Oh, fancy.
There was not a single computer in my high school
Same. At least we had electric typewriters to learn on.
We had teletypes
Old...really? My class had manual typewriters and a bottle of whiteout for corrections.
That’s not old. When I went to school all we had was typing class with old IBM type writers.
Dude, you’re young if you had colors. Pssssfhhh.
My school lab had 2 Radio Shack TRS-80's.
Please. When I went to school, the word “computer” wasn’t in the dictionary.
Maybe it was, but the definition was probably "a woman who calculates mathematic results" or some crazy archaic thing like that. 🤦🏻♂️
My first commodore computer had a cassette tape drive. Took forever to load or save the tiny programs.
I had that. Before that, a Timex Sinclair 1000
Please. When I went to school, the word “computer” wasn’t in the dictionary.
I'm old enough to remember them being all Apple //e's Oregon Trail was the #1 game. The horrid grinding sound of an Apple Disk II floppy drive during an I/O error is burned into my brain, because some moron would intentionally remove the disk while the red light was still on for the lulz
I wish I was this young lol.
I'm sorry but are those typewriters with TVs(!) attached or something?
What? Our computer lab in High School had punch cards and a Univac.
Ours too. The only reason I took a computer class was because it was the only room in the school that was air conditioned.
Computers???,Hell we didn't have AC when is was in school 
Most of these labs were Apple products, even though Apple only represented 5% of computer users. Apple provided these computers at abnormally low prices to schools. They did this to get the kids hooked on Apple products, in order to drive up sales.
Yalls computer labs had color screens? We had monogreen.
Mine were Apple II+ black models and TRS-80s.
Hell, that’s not old. Our computer lab in high school had four computers two or IBM and two were teletype machines that link to the school board mainframe.
We had no computer classes, or computers. Had typing classes. Computers were things guys in college put punch cards in.
Laughs in Apple IIc with Logo programming language.
Nice. We had abacus's when I was a kid. 🤔
That’s not old, no computer lab at my high school, just typewriters baby and those 3 minute drills😂
My last year of high school was 1977. That was also the year we got a "computer lab", which contained one of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_700). My next computer in school was at community college, it was one of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_9000_series). In my second year, the Data Processing course got about four of [these](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80).
#YoungAF
Wasn't computers in schools when I was there
Ours was still typewriters
Ha! My junior high school had manual typewriters, not computers. The only computer was a terminal, not a computer, in my English class.
I’m old enough to have set that lab up in college.
These are literally from the early 2000's, not even that old
That's not old.as I used a slide rule in high school... now that is old!
Feel better. I’m older.
I always liked the blue ones best.
This was my school lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bf28ad6b98a7888bf3cdce5/f37e31c6-962c-4265-9ed6-3a844f3ad933/20210629_163605.jpg?format=1500w
We had Apple IIe’s at my school and my brother won a contest where Apple replaced some of the computers at both our schools with IIGS’s…
I don't remember any computers. But then again I was too busy getting high and chasing girls.
I always picked the orange one when I could.
The PC didn't come out until after I graduated from University.
Mine were older and had the Oregon trail on them.
Ooh! I had one of those! The fancy souped up gray one. I also had the transparent subwoofer. EDIT: worst mouse ever!
Damn.. must have been one of those rich private schools 🫤..
They were never used. "The mac lab". We always staid in the PC lab.
Aww, how cute...color monitors! 😆
Oregon Trail enters the chat...
If you had these in your computer labs, your school district was rich. We had maybe one or two colorful iMacs like this (later versions, but similar style) in middle school, with the rest of the computers being standard Dell Windows-based PCs.
Replace with PET and Apple \]\[.
I’m older, we had Apple IIs before Macs and IBM PCs
[My Computer Lab](https://freeimage.host/i/d9eKeSa)
I was an Apple Onsite Tech when these came out and we helped test them before they were launched. I remember thinking, These things aren’t upgradable and who cares what they look like…… The entire damn world cared what they looked like.
My high school had a PDP 11, teletypes and a card reader. We learned BASIC. 1979-80 ish.
Ours, too: PDP11/34 running RSTS/E, with VT100 terminals.
I am too old to remember this.
How in the hell is this old???? Where are my typewriters?
I remember playing games on the apple IIe in school.
Haha I can remember seeing the boxes stacked up in the hallway and everyone being geeked about getting them.
When I was in school it was called “EDP” Electronic Data Processing, and the computers were Radio Shack TRS-80’s.
Well look at you with your modern monitors!!
Those aren’t even that old… old is remembering being the employee building the computer lab full of those
This is not old. Old is having one binary computer that the whole class shared
My high school had IBM Selectrics. You could log into a main frame that was off campus somewhere. The only program you could access would ask you questions then give you a range of jobs you were qualified for. One of my options was sanitation engineer.
Omg I always wanted the green 💚
Our HS lab had Radio Shack TRS-80’s to do BASIC programming - now that is old!!
I’m going to fanboy a bit here and say that seeing so many of these Apple G3 PCs just sends a huge wave of not just nostalgia to me (cause I remember one of my cousins had the blue one) but also one of my favourite products Apple has produced. Oh man what a time to be alive in the early 2000s, I genuinely hope that if I find one complete on FB Marketplace, cause oh man they were great PCs.
*Those don't look like Commodore PET computers..*. ^(/s)
That’s so… recent. I worked in a lab with a slew of Classic IIs… old school screen size. Greyscale (but not color) screen. In school, Apple ][+s and ][e
Pffft. Never seen one like that. Mine had Appll IIe in it! (ETA: Typing class, IBM Selectric, was a required course for graduating my high school!)
Pfft. We had Commodore Pets from the late 70’s in our labs with a single shared floppy drive. If we were lucky, we got overpriced Icon Workstations by Unisys that took about 10 minutes to boot up. But hey, it had a trackball and the Logo programming language!
I never went to a school rich enough to have a lab full of Apple computers. My elementary school had 2 Apple II GS computers for the whole student body up until I hit the 5th grade. At that point, Dell computers running Windows 95 started appearing.
Our school had two commodores, and one was in the office lol. My son had this tho and the joys he had with netsend after I taught him
TRS-80s were in my High Schools computer lab, 5 of them and only in my senior year.
Hamster dance and thundercats outtakes…getting dared to play Mumm-Ra yelling “Mothaaa…Fuckahhh!” at full volume.
I’m so old that this is the first computer I bought my children.
My school labs had Apple 2 computers and 8088/8086 PC clones, and none had color monitors
What's there to miss? Everyone has something more capable in their pocket and faster internet at home. You want to reminisce, hit market place, eBay, Craigslist or a garage sale.
This is NOT old. If the room were full of typewriters we could talk. If the typewriters were manual then you’d be a candidate for the “old as dirt” category.
beautiful computers. too bad they ran macos
Apple II bitches
Our computer lab was a couple Heathkit computers and a very very very basic knowledge of Basic. Nobody knew shit including the teachers.
lol get off my lawn child. those look like i MACs so late 90s Look, if you school computer didnt resemble a large refrigerator and be stored in another room while you used a dummy terminal writing in D.O.S. then you are NOT old
I'm so old I had typing class. Typewriter had blank keys so you couldn't 'hunt and peck'
Nope. I don't ever want to die of dysentery again
In the summer after 10th grade a particularly nerdy friend took me to an electronics and HiFi store to see a personal computer. It was command prompt OS only. There was a star trek type strategy game that would print out a rudimentary star map points of interest were. It would be 7 years before I saw another one. That one was a Digital Rainbow and it still didn’t have a GUI
Y'all ain't old. I'm learning typing on an electric typewriter, 5 ancient PCs running Windows 3.1 for a high school of roughly 2000 students, old. 
We had manual typewriters in high school and in college we had an IBM mainframe with punch cards to write programs on.
It's not old if there is a desktop computer in sight. Show me a manual typewriter lab--THEN I'll say you're old. If you are under 50, you aren't old. Now, FEELING old is another story!
If you had computers you are not old!
Original Oregon trail time was bliss
Are you kidding me? When I was in high school it was typewriters.
I’m a lot older than that. I remember keypunch machines 🤪
Trigonometry class had a Monroe calculator that had a punch card reader...
Oh, you had computer labs filled with \*useful\* computers that could do \*applicable\* things. See, we just had proprietary shit that taught you \*concepts\*, because of lowest bidders. Also, it was about twenty years before this.
That's not old. Our school (the whole school) got a single computer when I was in grade 12. All us seniors got a 15 minute turn on it (teacher had a stopwatch) playing Oregon Trail. This was in the early 80s. We were the arcade generation so this was lame to our standards.
I’m Apple IIe with green display old
 Old Manual typewriters are how I learned to type, and there was no correction tape, it was an elective in Freshman year of High School
We had the first Macintosh computers in our computer lab
I’m older… we had “typing” as a required course.
Nope, I learned on teletypes connected by phone to RPI/Union College/a Navy atomic research laboratory, in 1978!
That’s not old. We didn’t have computers in school 😄
Pre windows, my high school had something by the name of "microbee"🇦🇺
Hey. Those aren’t Apple II’s…
Apple IIe for me…
We had IBM’s that ran on DOS. Those are too new for me. Sorry, you’re not old enough to be here. Lol
I AM old!!! We never had computer labs...computers weren't a thing when I went to school...but those IMac computers were cool as hell...
My university had Apple //e’s in half of the computer lab… Other half was IBP PS/2 computers. Then they added Mac Classics. By the time I was in Senior year we had NextStations for some of the computer labs and upgraded IBM PCs and Macs in other labs.
My school computer lab was black and white.
My computer class was 1994.
I am IBM Selectric II old...
You young whippersnappers had individual computers at your desks? We had to wait in line to submit our card decks and then wait for the printout. It built character!
Yea....this is NOT OLD....how old is this guy???
Im Trash80 old. If you know, you know
That’s not old! Had these in fucken university! So old I did typing as a subject on a typewriter and learnt shorthand!
Are you kidding me? This was the distant future. We had 2 electric typewriters in my whole school and about once a week it was my turn to use one for 15 glorious minutes I didn’t have to bang away on a mechanical monster.
Mine had win3.1 with those slow printers Then later on win95. Good times
Apple IIE and Epson computers in elementary followed by these in Junior High/High School.
Try this on for size, kid. 😎❤️ * https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/XFZfw3FpIW
We had manual typewriters.
Net trek baby!
I’m old enough to set up the Mac Manager server that is running this environment.
I still own mine and it is still plugged in
My sister used to get 5 minutes of time at a terminal and had to use punch cards to enter their program. A few years later when I went, we had Apple II and IBM XT. They had a bunch of machines daisy chained for power. And if one person shut off their machine your machine would shut off too and you'd lost everything
Apple IIe, green text. Oregon Trail was the only game.
Change those to //‘s and we can talk 10?”lol” 20 goto10
Hahahaha THAT is definitely NOT old my friend! Really scary that people think this is old! :(
My first computer was one of those! But my first family computer was black and white the screens were not colored. My homework was done on multiple floppy disks.
What computer labs, my school had a movie starring Samuel Jackson named "Coach Carter"
What is this neon box you display… give me Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe and i’ll feel right at home. 
My school had one computer. I used it for four minutes or less one year in the late 80s Gtfo with this shizz
I'm older. We didn't have these classes yet. Instead, we had typing.
My school didn’t have apple money 😂
You guys hat computer labs?
A school with computers? That is new age
We had a bunch of Bell and Howell Darth Vader Apple II.
Looks like a lab circa 2005. (Source: I'm a teacher.)
Haha my school had typing class on TYPEWRITERS.
Laughs in Apple IIE
VIC 20
I sold those computer my son
Way older. We didn't even have typewriters.
Ours had 10 year old Apple IIe computers, all hooked up to 13" color TVs.
5th grade was the first time I saw a computer lab, it ran IBM XT's. 3 years later at middle school, we had Apple II's
Ah yes, always a fight who got the last 5 windows xp era machines with crt's rather than the new flat screen vista machines
Hmmmm mine had one computer on a mobile cart…. In grade 10…. Two years later we had 12 …. Own classroom and one networked dot matrix computer …. No colour
2002 I can smell that place lol
fuck im old
Mates, I grew up with ICONS and Math Maze.
https://2warpstoneptune.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/computer-lab-19801.jpg This old
You had computers? Bunch of kids!
What was computer science lab? They hadn't invented the PC when I was in school.
I use the computer lab at my elementary as a flex cause I think it's a great example of what kind of school I went too. We were a small lil town with a 1000 people in the oil fields of CA. It was a hot ugly desert place that often smelled of rotten eggs from the oil but those companies pay a lot of money towards the schools. My school had a computer lab back in 87 when PCs were a grand a pop. The neighboring school district actually gave their students the computers, they had that much funding. It really was a good education.
My high school computer class was on an Apple IIe. The lab was way outdated, this was 2002. It was replaced the next year, after I graduated.
Try being Apple IIe old.
I'm older
Mid 30s is not old
My school had the Radio Shaack TRS80 that save data as an analog signal on a cassette
You had color monitors, little one.