I'm around that age. In poorer areas we just had whatever cast-off computers. Circa 1995, my grammar school featured:
- A Franklin ACE (Apple ][ Clone) with an amber screen and two floppy drives
- An Atari ST with a daisywheel printer (Letter quality!)
The newest additions to the school were:
- A Compaq 386 with an amber screen - this is where we had WordPerfect
- A Tandy 1000, 8086 with DOS and a color monitor. Not sure if it could do VGA, definitely CGA was a thing. We ran Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego and a paint program on that. Because it was in my classroom, this was really the first computer I learned exhaustively. I read its MS-DOS manual cover to cover and enjoyed writing batch files, building launcher menus, etc.
- A Franklin ACE (Apple ][ Clone) with an amber screen and two floppy drives
- An Atari ST with a daisywheel printer (Letter quality!)
The newest additions to the school were:
- A Compaq 386 with an amber screen - this is where we had WordPerfect
- A Tandy 1000, 8086 with DOS and a color monitor. Not sure if it could do VGA, definitely CGA was a thing. We ran Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego and a paint program on that. Because it was in my classroom, this was really the first computer I learned exhaustively. I read its MS-DOS manual cover to cover and enjoyed writing batch files, building launcher menus, etc.