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Comment by pjmlp

8 hours ago

In Portugal there was only one single shop for the whole country, Interlog, located in Lisbon.

Wanted to get a Mac, needed to travel there, or order by catalogue, from magazine ads.

On my university there were about 5 LCs on a single room for students use, while the whole campus was full of PCs, and UNIX green/amber phosphor terminals to DG/UX rooms, on all major buildings.

Besides that single room, there were two more on the IT department, and that was about it.

When Apple was going down, between buying Be or NeXT as last survival decision, the fate of the university keeping those Macs around was being discussed.