27 Jun
2012
27 Jun
'12
12:11 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, David Riley wrote:
But there was a huge push to get Apples in schools
here, helped by
the fact that the state of Minnesota paid for an awful lot of Apple
II software to be developed (most of my memories of the Apple II
aside from learning BASIC were from MECC educational games).
At one time, Apple COMPUTER (I don't know whether they were related to the
current "Apple Consumer Electronics"), wanted to DONATE one Apple computer
to every school in the USA. In exchange, they wanted to be able to deduct
from their taxes at the "warehousing
distributor"? price (the lowest price
that Apple sold them for wholesale). The
IRS said, "NO!" They declared
that Apple could not deduct more than the base cost of the raw materials
used to make the computer - no labor, fixed costs, etc. The IRS also
cited the spectre that, if they agreed to it, then "EVERY computer company
might do it!" Can you imagine the consequences to our society if the
schools had excess FREE computers??!?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com