Educational subsidies

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Oct 17 15:19:57 1998

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_at_siconic.com
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