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    [–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    mac was very popular in academia even before osx. It was like the only place you would find macs in the early aughts.

    [–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Apple was popular in academia even before Mac OS.

    The Apple II was gaining a lot of popularity with colleges before the Mac even came out. And by the time System 7 was renamed to Mac OS 7 in the mid 90s Apple had gone HARD on getting Macs (and until the 90s Apple IIs) into all schools levels.

    [–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 2 months ago

    to be fair the apple II was a fairly common computer in that age (appleII 80's im talking here not the 90's stuff). they were like the first things out there and ibm came later and ibm clones came still later. But yeah mac worked for the position in the schools.