Educational subsidies

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote: I thought that Acorn dominated the UK school system? Perhaps I heard wrong. At any rate, it's definitely country, if not region, specific, as I don't recall ever hearing from anyone around here that they went to a school with an Apple lab. My high school had TRS-80s. Model IIIs, I think. Another one that I visited had Ataris. Three people that I know had labs full of PETs in school, though one of those labs was at a technical school and not high school or elementary school. My high school had a single Apple //e in the physics lab, but that's all. Also several PETs in the music department, and an Altair 8800, which all disappeared a year or two before I got there (I went to the open house while my brother attended the school). One of those PETs is sitting in the other room as I type this (my brother bought it from the high school music teacher). The TRS-80s were replaced with some rediculous things from France while I was attending the school, but I can't remember the name of the computer even though I saw one at the Salvation Army a while back. They were PC semi-compatibles, I think. The college I attended before entering university had at least two labs full of Commodore PCs. Sun and DEC seem to dominate the university I attend, with a sprinkling of SGI, Macintosh, and Amiga. Quebec government subsidies supported those things from France, and I don't think Apple really had much of a foothold in the educational market here. I could be wrong, of course, but when I mention PETs to people in my classes now, often they mention that those were the first machines that they used back in high school or elementary. I don't get the same response for Apples, which were often owned at home but not used at school. (And I was an Apple user back in my high school days, so I do mention it.) -- Doug Spence ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/