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[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

If it was monochrome orange, it probably was a 286. They were in my school anyway. I had a 386 at home though and it was VGA or SVGA.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

My elementary school for 2nd thru 5th (1992-1995) had IBM EduQuests. Every classroom had 5 of them, and there was a computer lab room, too. Token ring network with an MAU in each room (or maybe every other room), too.

Looking back, that was insane for the early 90s.

But they all booted to some network OS. Ik 4th grade, my best friend and I figured out how to access our menu config files and edit them in Microsoft Works for DOS.

We realized we could see everyone's menu config file, even teachers. Then we realized we could copy/paste those blocks to our configs and they'd work. So we just started adding apps and features to our account, and many of them worked. Just tinkering around.

My friend also managed to guess at least 2 or 3 different teachers passwords.

We stopped hanging out a lot in high school when he went to voc and I stayed in town...but 30 years later (from the 90s...), we are both well into our careers in network administration.

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