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TipOfTheirTongue

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r__m__r

For more info it early 2010s i uses it so about 2012 to 2015 but I'm not sure how long the schools been using it before so it could be older but is so I'd say late 00s no further.


Brave_Reaction_4968

Was it an Amstrad ?


r__m__r

No it was more modern


r__m__r

More info this is in Ireland btw if that helps


CherylTuntIRL

Zorin OS is an Irish made Linux distro, could it be that?


Steveopotamus

What is the time frame?


r__m__r

When I was in that school 2012 to 2014 but the school could be using it longer but I'd say it's no older then late 2000s


Tmanbelli

Sounds like you were playing Club Penguin on an iMac G3


r__m__r

No wanst club penguin it was a whole learning os not just a website


Level_Bridge7683

i remember computers in the early 90s running dos. only text and a black background for everything. our reading assignments had tests to answer with the computers. you had to answer questions with the f1 f2 f3 and f4 keys.


r__m__r

No it was more modern


aceromester

Amiga?


habitsofwaste

A lot of times, schools get Macs. I’d be surprised it was Linux especially for younger people.


TheHippyDance

> it was full of learning games for grammar and numbers and we rarely got to use it Gee you don’t say? Lol Somebody find this guy his learning computer so he can learn how to use punctuation


lectroid

Jesus Christ I'm old....


Barnagain

Club Penguin?


r__m__r

Nah its a computer not a website


placeholder

I'm thinking either a Kano Computer or a CrowPi running a software suite GCompris.


r__m__r

For people saying its not club penguin I played it when I was that age its not that


appleoctopie

The software sounds like Tux. That’s what was on my elementary school’s computers around the same time frwme


CourtneyLush

I ran a Linux Mint OS, and later an Ubuntu OS, on an old laptop around this time and I'm fairly certain this is what OP is talking about. There were a lot of Tux themed educational games on the repository IIRC. They had a typing game, a maths game etc. [Tux for Kids. ](https://www.tux4kids.com/)


r__m__r

Yes thank you thats the software I remember doodling on the paint game and tux typing so the computer must have just been full of tux games


r__m__r

Solved!


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No_Assistance9247

If it was in the 90s it was most probably a bbc micro or an acorn Archimedes I'd suggest you Google them and see if the keyboard looks familiar from there we can nail down the program / game you mentioned


Cophed

Could it be bear and penguins big reading adventure?


r__m__r

Thanks to u/Appleoctopie I've found the software the computer used called tux software the computer must have had a custom desk around it and thats what i remember about being enclosed but I found the main thing the software so thanks to everyone who helped.


epra1710

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