Commodore vs Apple [WAS: Re: stepping machanism of Apple Disk ][ drive

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 13 00:20:33 1999

When I referred to middle schools, I meant the "thing" that's in place here
in the Denver Public Schools in place of what was junior high school when I
attended it (in the same building, by the way).

Your observation supports my notion that schools got into the Apples because
they'd been given quite a number of them for free. Apple probably couldn't
get a big write-off for donating things to the Canadian schools.

There's no reason why the Commodore machines couldn't have evolved into
someting useful That keyboard on the early models might have been a
deterrent for the schools, though, since the Denver schools really teach
little more than typing with these computers at the middle school level.
Received on Tue Apr 13 1999 - 00:20:33 BST