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Why do some programmers love emacs so much
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It was my first Mac and first computer that was just mine.
Boy I pushed that thing to the limits. Ended up frying the video card. While I loved it, it was just so so weak.
I remember my school had no idea how you should set up computers before letting first graders use them so we were all constantly dragging all the applications into the trash can to hear the fun noise and see the little puff of dust.
They also all had a copy of Type to Learn Jr installed, which we were strictly forbidden from opening, and every time we were using the computers multiple people would get in trouble for playing it. A few years ago I got a couple of cheap iBook G3 laptops and the first thing I did was install Type to Learn Jr and finally play it all the way through
Was their goal to make it feel forbidden so the rebellious kids would 'secretly' learn typing?
Mine had a bunch of iMac g3s, eMacs came toward grade 8.
Games weren't explicitly forbidden, just needed to finish work first, new Cross Country Canada, math circus and Oregon trail were the games I recall the most of. There was this one game though I can't recall the name of but the concept was interesting, you played as a time travelling velociraptor and had to save dinosaur eggs from extinction, was like a 3rd person shooter, I have no idea why that was on school computers
Edit: was Nanosaur
Apple had a strong relationship with Pangea at the time, who developed that game. From 1999-2006, most Macs shipped with some sort of game (usually Bugdom). Reimaging a Mac didn’t really exist at the time, most of the time they were just rolled out to classrooms as is with a few extra programs installed.
My 2006 Mac Mini had Marble Blast Gold from Garage Games, that was the last one I was aware of.
Thanks for that, Bugdom also looks familiar!