Yep, I used these things in Ontario in grade 6-8 (between 1990 and 92), and even came across them in highscool too! They were funny little machines, we had some of the model shown in the Wikipedia article, and some newer ones with detached keyboards.
ISTR they had a GUI interface but it was possible to get to a command line somehow. Once I found the command line it didn't take too long to figure out how to get access to other people's accounts (there didn't seem to be any security) :-D
At the time I had just an A500 but it was painfully clear how much better a machine the Amiga was... most people at that point only had DOS based PC's so the GUI was a new concept to them until Windows started catching on.
Funny that they'd destroy all the machines. I didn't realize they were as unique as they seem to have been -- I guess there was no real use for them once they'd been replaced by PC's.
Maybe someone could write an ICON emulator?? :-o
EDIT - Reading through the Wikipedia article, I see the OS used was QNX! I didn't realize it was around that far back, maybe the ICONs were more advanced than I thought!
