Educational subsidies

::Well, I don't know about that. Every school I came up through had at ::least an Apple lab. In fact, all the schools I attended (Los Angeles ::Unified) had exclusively Apple ][s, and it wasn't until my senior year of ::high school (1989) when I moved to northern California and attended a ::totally new school that the school had an IBM lab, but they still had an ::Apple lab (which was barely used until I raised a stink about it, and ::encouraged the teachers to begin using it more to teach basic computer ::skills, which they did). Same here. I learned BASIC on an Apple ][+ in the La Mesa-Spring Valley (San Diego) School District in '84, but even my high school had Apple ][e's until only a couple of years ago when they switched locations and used a grant to buy PCs. I think they have a Mac or two also (mostly as a token :-/). Apples were most common here, but amazingly, at least one school in my district had a lab of Commodore 64s (Commodore made an abortive effort to crack the school market in 1989 but it flopped, of course), and the K-8 I went to for junior high had a lab of CoCo 2s, connected by that fabulous network server that acts like a cassette interface and served by a CoCo 3 with a disk drive. I wrote a fraction division program, which was still in use years later -- it was loaded off the CoCo 3 and then CLOADed onto the CoCo 2s before math period started. (Mr. Lamb also had two 64s there, sharing a miserably overworked 1541. :-) --