16 Apr
2001
16 Apr
'01
6:38 p.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
My recollection of an earlier dialogue on the same
package is that they
were garden variety Apple IIs except for the black case, and that had
been sold to Bell & Howell for use as a part of their Computer
Correspondence School.
My recollection was that they had a different power cord, and a latch/lock
to prevent opening the case.
They were a clever marketing move. For a while, schools had difficulty
getting approval for computer purchases, since that was "territory" of
district data processing, and because school boards wouldn't recognize
products from little unknown companies named after fruit. But it was EASY
to slide it into a purchase order for Hell and Bowel, in between a couple
of projectors.
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