I wish we'd had stuff like this at our School but desktop PCs weren't around then. Some students would go to the local Polytechnic and get some time on their Mainframe. I don't know what they did 'cos I didn't know anything about it at the time. All we had in the Metalwork dept were some Lathes, a Vertical Milling Machine and other minor stuff. I wouldn't mind betting that we were rather well kitted out compared to a lot of Schools in the area though. As a sidenote I hated Games & PE so I used to go and do Metalwork or some extra curricular Chemistry instead. These and Maths were the only subjects I really liked at School.