> I wrote:
> > Apple gave the Inside Macintosh stuff to pretty much any University or
> > College that wanted it.
>
> > No they didn't, at least not outside the US.
> [...]
> > We had to buy a Lisa and the Pascal
> > development environment, pretty much at list price in order to do
> > any programming on the Mac.
>
> I never said that they gave away computers or compilers.
>
They didn't give away Inside Macintosh either, we had to buy it
at the local bookstore.
I think a large part of the problem was the attitiude. We
paid close to list price, and in return we didn't get any
support. If there was a sizable discount, say 30%, then this
would be acceptable. But, whenever we called with problems we
were told we were a University Site and weren't entitled to
support (I suspect we would have got the same answer if we
had paid full price).
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 21:04:17 BST