we had como64, was virtually useless for an 8 year old, was bought for us kids to learn computers, only usefull thing was the tape drive which would work sometimes lol, then we got our first pc, a 1x86 with no windows, just dos, then we got windows 3.1 wow, that was sort of better but still needed dos to get into window, and dos to run games, c dot dot dash windows, then type run, lol thats how a 8 year old me remembered to do it.
 we didnt have computers at school till i was around year 6 and they were useless apples, this was in the 90s still, but we had just got windows 95 at home. now that was cool.
when windows 95 came out the macs were no good and we then had 3 computers at school. then in year 8 the schools got the internet in the library, about the same time we got it at home, this probably around 97ish, crazy to think, that really wasnt a long time ago, then 2000 was still dialup for most of us, who weren't in a major city with cable. no such thing as adsl really even then. Im thirty and most of my schooling was with out computers except later high school when i finished in 2000, lol, really hasnt been a very long transition. My old man is cop, and i remember him in the police station with out a computer and everything was typewriter, crazy how fast shit has changed. but it really wasnt till the internet came around and available that computers where actually useful to any average old joe, one year no one knew what the internet was the next year every man and his dog was selling it, lol
all the sudden the consoles got put down and not played and every one was on a chat line lol, or creating a hotmail email account. lol
pc's were so useless for a time there, console was a case of putting the cartridge in and playing straight away with better graphics, lol none of this dos garbage.