I don't know why people are downvoting you.

I went to a middle school that was "mac only" in the 90s. They were complete and utter crap.

They crashed constantly. The spinning pizza of death made a near hourly appearance.

We had two machines issued to each classroom, and most times the kids wouldn't even turn them on they were so bad.

>Everyone I knew with an iMac had a toothpick or paper clip in the top handle, due to how common they needed to press the reset hole.

What kind of Mac were you running?

The straightened paperclip was only there to eject recalcitrant floppy disks (early on), and then recalcitrant CDs later

Restarting the machine was always a menu option or physical button

He said iMac - the G3 iMacs had reset/interrupt holes (see to the right of the Ethernet jack) https://i0.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/B...

there are a LOT of iMac models

Never heard of someone needing to reset any of them with a paperclip before

Reset holes for paper clips? I can't remember any of my Macs having a reset hole like you describe. In any case, I never had to use one. There was a key combo for resetting the OS.