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?
>
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