The Apple II was popular in schools and it seems Apple thought that getting into the education market would lead to home sales, but the lower cost of PC hardware and Microsoft’s success at business sales seemed to win out. We started using Macs when I got to fifth grade and sixth grade, but by eighth grade I was in a different school and we used Windows anytime we used a computer. It wasn’t until I went to university that I saw and used Macs again, since I was studying broadcast communication. The university was huge and had all sorts of options. Classrooms with computers would get whatever worked best for their usage but the open computer labs would have a mix of Windows, Macs, Red Hat Linux, and Sun Solaris. Everything ran Novell NetWare so it didn’t really matter what computer we used unless we needed software specific to an operating system, like Final Cut Pro.
The Apple II was popular in schools and it seems Apple thought that getting into the education market would lead to home sales, but the lower cost of PC hardware and Microsoft’s success at business sales seemed to win out. We started using Macs when I got to fifth grade and sixth grade, but by eighth grade I was in a different school and we used Windows anytime we used a computer. It wasn’t until I went to university that I saw and used Macs again, since I was studying broadcast communication. The university was huge and had all sorts of options. Classrooms with computers would get whatever worked best for their usage but the open computer labs would have a mix of Windows, Macs, Red Hat Linux, and Sun Solaris. Everything ran Novell NetWare so it didn’t really matter what computer we used unless we needed software specific to an operating system, like Final Cut Pro.