15 Oct
1997
15 Oct
'97
7:17 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Uncle Roger wrote:
At 03:50 PM 10/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
My money says that Apple licensed the II to B&H as a way of getting into
schools. B&H made projectors and such for the school market and so buyers
are far more likely to buy a Bell and Howell computer than some machine from
some company nobody ever heard of.
And once the computers were in place, Apple could get in the door by selling
Bell and Howell clones...
Certainly both possible, but I would be more willing to believe that B&H
contracted with Apple to supply the rebadged units to support their
technical training and correspondence courses.
- don
Disk]['s. Did Apple license Bell & Howell to make these machines? If they
did, did they license other companies as well?
Yes and they were all black. I don't think Apple ever licensed the design
to any other company, and I'm surprised that they even licensed it at all.
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