17 Oct
1998
17 Oct
'98
8:19 a.m.
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
Slashdot.org has a story explaining that the UK school
system can't
afford NT 5 and are considering another OS. In light of this, people
were bringing up Apple's success in schools in contrast to the current
situation. However, I have heard that the only reason why Apples were
common in schools was that the gov't bore some of the price tag to
encourage use of Apples, and Apple didn't pay as much attention to
education as is generally thought. Is this true? What were the
particulars of Apple educational licensing?
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).
Apple very actively marketed to schools, and as far as I know had special
deals in place to encourage wide-spread adoption in schools. If I'm
not mistaken, the schools were Apple's biggest market, and continued to
use Apple ][s well after they fell out of favor in the general
marketplace.
Where did you get your information from?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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