ALTHOUGH APPLE COMPUTERS featured exclusively on the Isle of Man’s computer bus - remarkably the first piece of ICT kit to find its way onto the bus was this Viewsonic G90F 19" CRT Monitor (LEFT).
It was mated here with an Apple keyboard and mouse in order to confirm that there was (just) space for a bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor on the benches.
As shown by the third picture, there was not quite enough room, and it is probably just as well that Apple’s 15” LCD screen (BELOW) came along just in time to save space, weight and power requirement. And it was also just as well Manx Telecom agreed to pay for these, which would otherwise have been unaffordable to the Education Department !