31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
9:14 p.m.
The original Apple II case could be easily open by students and was not
suitable for school use. (It may not have had the proper UL approval.) The
dark Bell & Howell Apple II case was locked down and somewhat student proof.
Bell & Howell also knew how to sell projectors and other audio visual
equipment to schools everywhere. This is how Apple fortuitously stumbled
into the education market.
Michael Holley
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Dealing with Board Of Education types required some
cunning.
One popular machine had som much difficulty selling to those types,
that they made a BLACK model, with latch instead of Velcro lid,
attached power cord, and sold through the primary projector supplier.
That way, a teacher running up against "policies regarding computer
purchase" could slip it past the budget committees as "AV equipment".
Just looks like Brazil! :oD And I don't have a Bell & Howell (or
something like that, I just don't remember) black apple :(