Amiga's in the classroom!?

[Bif]

Today I was shocked to learn my daughter's grade 4 classroom still has a couple of Amigas in it. She saw at least an Amiga 1200HD(?). They had at least another one but it was put in storage to make room for another Mac. I am disappointed she didn't tell me this sooner since she knows how much I like Amigas. I guess our small town school is pretty far behind with computers ... or maybe they just know a good computer when they see it .

Gotta make sure they don't eventually throw the Amigas in the trash.

Anyway, just had to share .

[Darth_X]

Today I was shocked to learn my daughter's grade 4 classroom still has a couple of Amigas in it. She saw at least an Amiga 1200HD(?). They had at least another one but it was put in storage to make room for another Mac. I am disappointed she didn't tell me this sooner since she knows how much I like Amigas. I guess our small town school is pretty far behind with computers ... or maybe they just know a good computer when they see it .

Gotta make sure they don't eventually throw the Amigas in the trash.

Anyway, just had to share .

Wow! Shock!

[SACC-guy]

My 64 club donated two CDTVs to the Blind Childrens Learning Center.
They were great.

[huronking]

I bought a loaded A2500 with TBCIV and Toaster, Syquest (remember those?) for $15 from the local school board surplus warehouse back in '97.  That was the best catch, but I bought a ton of stuff over the years. (The palette of 60 Atari 1040ST's for $20 was a mixed blessing)...

The point being I'll bet they don't throw them away. They probably sell or auction the surplus to get it off the books for pennies on the dollar.

Good luck!

[DonutKing]

Last I heard, a few years ago the primary school I went to still had a few Apple IIe's in a couple of classrooms...

[CritAnime]

One of my cousins said they found a BBC Micro and a Acorn Arcamedes sat it in a cupboard of technology classroom. They are probably the same ones I used when I was at that school. If they are functioning then I doubt they will get rid of them. I know my old college still uses an old BBC to teach students about programming.

[Drummerboy]

@Bif,

Yeah, put behind that Amiga, maybe there are more Amigas in the Storage. This maybe can take some of time and patience. You know i rescue some Amigas and  others stuff, not from any school, but other places where not will use Amiga anymore, and I could save those computers to be taken for recycling. Do it men!. And be patience if is necesary.

[4pLaY]

Today I was shocked to learn my daughter's grade 4 classroom still has a couple of Amigas in it. She saw at least an Amiga 1200HD(?). They had at least another one but it was put in storage to make room for another Mac. I am disappointed she didn't tell me this sooner since she knows how much I like Amigas. I guess our small town school is pretty far behind with computers ... or maybe they just know a good computer when they see it .

Gotta make sure they don't eventually throw the Amigas in the trash.

Anyway, just had to share .

It would be nice to see a picture of that :-).

[drHirudo]

When I was serving the military back in 2002-2003, in one of the classrooms they had a couple of Pravetz-82's (Apple II clones) that were still functioning.
The schools and the military are very conservative and they use 20-30 years old technology without any trouble if they work well. They don't have problem with the spare parts as they have a load of these machines. Too bad the Amiga back in the Commodore days didn't went for that market and it was taken over by Apples and cheap IBM PC XT/AT clones. I know some C64 were used in classrooms as well.

[persia]

@drHirudo

Just out of curiosity which country's military?  We've got people from all over the world here....

[persia]

@drHirudo

Just out of curiosity which country's military?  We've got people from all over the world here....

[kolla]

When I was serving the military back in 2002-2003, in one of the classrooms they had a couple of Pravetz-82's (Apple II clones) that were still functioning.
The schools and the military are very conservative and they use 20-30 years old technology without any trouble if they work well. They don't have problem with the spare parts as they have a load of these machines. Too bad the Amiga back in the Commodore days didn't went for that market and it was taken over by Apples and cheap IBM PC XT/AT clones. I know some C64 were used in classrooms as well.

Ever read the EULA that came with the Amiga computers? Hint... many Amiga developers were, well, hippies

[itix]

In Finland Amiga 500 was relatively popular in elementary schools. I saw bunch of Amigas in use in late 90s running education software.

[dougal]

Not school related but about 8 or 9 years ago one of the information channels of my cable tv provider was showing a static Workbench 2.x screen instead of the usual weather etc..

[amigadave]

Not school related but about 8 or 9 years ago one of the information channels of my cable tv provider was showing a static Workbench 2.x screen instead of the usual weather etc..

Just last night around 2am I saw a computer screen overlay on my sattelite TV system that had the text "DPaint" and some other text with it that I did not catch as I was looking away when it first appeared and it was only on the screen for a few seconds.

Could it be that there are still some Amiga computers in service at certain TV studios, or Cable/Sattelite TV stations?