Educational subsidies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Oct 1998

I'm almost embarassed to say: I believe it was a site that compared
PCs and Macs. If it was a ruse, it was very sophisticated for a
person who writes an 'intelligent comparison' of PCs and Macs. Maybe
they were paid off by you-know-who ...
...
 > 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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