I wrote:
Apple gave the Inside Macintosh stuff to pretty
much any University or
College that wanted it.
No they didn't, at least not outside the US.
[...]
We had to buy a Lisa and the Pascal
development environment, pretty much at list price in order to do
any programming on the Mac.
I never said that they gave away computers or compilers.
They didn't give away Inside Macintosh either, we had to buy it
at the local bookstore.
I think a large part of the problem was the attitiude. We
paid close to list price, and in return we didn't get any
support. If there was a sizable discount, say 30%, then this
would be acceptable. But, whenever we called with problems we
were told we were a University Site and weren't entitled to
support (I suspect we would have got the same answer if we
had paid full price).
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Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada