In the old days Apple were super expensive and hardly present in Iberian Penisula, Portugal only had Interlog in Lisbon, we saw adds on magazines, no one bought them.

First time I actually managed to see some LC in person, I was already attending the university, and there were only used in two places, a single room on the computer lab building, and the administrative assistants on the IT department, no one else across the whole campus had them.

I got to use and learn NeXTSTEP, because my thesis was to port a visualization software away from it into Windows, as my supervisor was the only owner of one, and they were getting rid of it, as NeXT wasn't having a great future on those years, already having pivoted to software only.

So the turn around with OS X felt interesting, and kind of revigorating, given how close Apple and NeXT were to be gone.

That Apple is long gone.