Did you take computer classes in high school?

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I took about three different computer courses.

No. My school was way behind the times - I graduated in 1992 but the computers my school had were Apple IIe's (from late '70s/early '80s.)

I graduated from a rural school in 1987. I attended the only computer class offered. In fact, I was the one who set up the computers.

I graduated in 2001. I took a Visual Basic programming class, and 2 semesters of a computer repair class, primarily because it was fun. I did not enjoy the batch of about 40 Pentium 133's we got to repair, though. They had been rebuilt from 486's and were just failing left and right. I think only about 10 of those ever got successfully fixed. It got to the point where I'd just run salvage on them without even attempting to troubleshoot them.

I took a Java class first semester, and if I don't switch schools next year I'm gonna take APCS with data structures.

I took a computer keyboarding class in high school.

the IBM PC was introduced the year after I graduated from college...grrrr...

Pentium and 486? uh...I'd need to know more, but the pinouts on the chips along wouldn't really work well (there's 3 'wrong' ways to insert a 486 or pentium chip... At the very least, I'd think they'd have to replace the system boads...

I started on a TRS-80 with 64k at home. Also some exposure to the commodore64. In 6th grade we used apple IIes, and I was at the head of the class. In fact my lab partner and I finished all the material and were asked to write more for the rest of the class.

In 10th grade(different school) we had CP/M machines with a toggle switch so they could boot from a dos 2.0 disk. Later that year we ended up working with early apples. Also, that class had an analogue computer, but i failed to realize how freakin cool it was. My loss.

A little after that time, dad bought a 286+ and a friend had a 8088. Within a few years mom bought a 486SX. By that time I was working and upgraded it to a 486DX.

And so it goes, until today. Oh, and I took a spreadsheet course somewhere in there.

I had a commodore 64 from the mid-1980s until about 1994. Didn't have a computer again until I got my current one in late 2004.

My school didn't have actual computer classes, and I didn't bother with the keyboarding course. I didn't really get into computers at all until WP turned me on to Linux, but now I'm a computer science major.

We did have computers though- a fair number of Macs, and also some Dells. I don't think we've gotten anything new in a couple years, though, since all the Macs I've seen at my school were PPC, and the Dells aren't exactly top-of-the-line either.

My favorite computers in school were the ancient ones in the Apple computer lab at my elementary school. I was too young to pay attention to the model, but they were outmoded even then- it was the early days of the PC era, and these were dinosaurs from the early 80s or so. They could only run with a program loaded up from a floppy disk, most commonly the completely badass Oregon Trail classic game. And people say there are no games for the Mac. I'd enter the names of my bullies in my "party" and make sure they all died of dysentery.

No, besides the required typing course. My school offered one programming course, which was AP Computer Science A. The word on the street was not to take it since you did not learn enough to be prepared for the APCS exam. 'Twas no big deal now since I don't give a damn about programming, but I think it would have helped here in college, where I got an 'A' in my first programming course but did miserably in my second course because I didn't have the appropriate background in object-oriented programming (that the other people with my skill level dropped, leaving only the uber-programmers who knew the course material already, only made things worse)