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ok so here i think was apples vision for this computer,

sitting in a jr. high computer lab, turned on the morning, left on all day, no internet, no printing,

Just something to play Number Munchers, and oregon trail.

because both of those it does quite well seems,

Typing tutor,

ok well maybe the occasional word processor, save your document to floppy when done :)

likewise with an xls doc.
And you hit that nail directly on the head. Back in the late 90s, I was in jr high. And it was the same way. we had a lab full of these, the 5200/75. They had At Ease, and was used to do exactly that. I used to piss the computer lab teacher off because I would hack At Ease and drop into finder, he could never figure it out. Only way I stopped was the threat of suspension. He was running At Ease 2.0 i believe. Hell i cant remember how I did it, but I loaded finder through the debug prompt. The bad thing about it was the fact it only worked one out of 5 times due to System Error, Address Error bombs.

However with a twist, there was a workgroup server and everything was wired via coaxnet, because the program called CCC which is a math lab program, used the server to store user database information. So, CCC required an appletalk share to be mounted before it would run.

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