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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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Apr 16 2001 - 17:38:22 BST