Trying to identify an old computer.

[aimeeandbeatles]

In elementry school, we had these old Macs, and I'm trying to identify what it is. Did extensive googling, but didn't really find anything.

I remember that the monitors were kind of rounded, and the reset button was in the back, because when it froze up we had to get a teacher to reach it. I also remember that the deskop was two "tabs" with square buttons for icons -- one tab was the programs (I remember SimTown*, Widget's Workshop, and ClarisWorks), and the other would be the saved files. When you moused-over a button, the computer would text-to-speech the file/program name.

I also remember a menu at the top of the desktop, it was plain white and black, and I think there were three buttons (can't remember). And that was the only way I remember you could eject a CD, through the menu. And there was a little apple on the right side of the menu thingy.

Also, the close/minimize/maximize/restore looked sort of like in Windows 3.1.

Any help, anyone? I tried to remember as many details as possible, if I see a screenshot/picture I'll know exactly.

One more thing: I entered school in 1997, if you want a timeframe.

Thank you.

*I have SimTown on a CD, but I don't see any system requirements on the case, and the booklet is missing.

 

[Zelig]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Hmmm, I don't remember ours having any color, and the one i found with the desktop didnt look the same.

Thanks anyways.

 

[ainwood]

If they were there when you first entered school in 1997, then it wasn't the G3, although it appears that they were the first all-in-one (ie the CPU and monitor were all together). I would have thought one fo the Apple Macintosh range - we had some of those at Uni in ~ 1997.

The timeline from the link that Zelig gave might help.

The details you said about what was on-screen is more related to the MacOS than to the actual hardware.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've been looking at the MacOS, but I can't find it.

Does anybody know of sites or such with screenshots?

EDIT: I remember that it looked like this, except there were colors. I don't know about the desktop, as its not in the screenshot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sys6screenshotbusy.png
I look at othrr screenshots of later versions of OS 7, and it looks similar. Except the desktop.

EDIT: Found another clue: I remember HyperCard as a program on it, and here's what it says on Wikipedia:
OS System Software 6, System 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9

The main thing that confuses me is the desktop on the elementry school ones.

EDIT: YES!!! I think I found it!! Except for the desktop, everything is the same!
http://www.my-old-macintosh.de/

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I found it!

I was just looking around a site of old GUIs and found this:
http://toastytech.com/guis/atease.html