22 Jul
2003
22 Jul
'03
12:49 p.m.
I agree with Sellam (get the record books out) *grin*
I keep seeing them listed on ebay as "K-RAD K00L RAAAARE Black Bell & Howell
Apple"... sheesh... while I do not have one, I have seen lots and lots of them
both in the wild and in collectors hands. They don't seem particularly rare to
me.
Yep.
The schools were saturated with them.
Besides a couple of trivial differences to help them withstand classroom
abuse, there was an issue of purchasing.
Hell & Bowell was an existing line item on every years budget (for AV
stuff), so ordering anything from B&H was trivially easy, whereas ordering
a "COMPUTER!" had to go through permission from "district data
processing"
AND "purchasing" had never heard of, and didn't want to do business with
some "tiny" startup named after a fruit. Ordering IBM was easier with
"purchasing", but still incurred the obstacles with "district data
processing".
Ordering a black apple was easy. just sneak it through in the AV budget.