Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Support Apple II's Message-ID: <8911131126.aa04541@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 13 Nov 89 15:47:29 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: School of Business - U. of Connecticut Lines: 27 On Mon, 13 Nov 89 14:47:00 GMT you said: >Ahem...Apple *does* have educational prices for all its products. Most people >just don't happen to be schools. Even though I'm NOT a 'school,' I can use my Universitty ID to purchase (once every 5 years or some such) a PS/2, Zenith PC (the laptops are attractively priced) or a Macintosh (as can ANY student or member of the faculty or staff). I haven't asked if the IIgs is on the list from Apple, but the gist of other messages I've seen is that it's not. You seem to be saying that a SCHOOL (K-12?) can get a discoount on a IIgs but NOT a student majoring in education (which WOULD mean that the NEXT generation of school purchases is likely to be PS/2 Model 30-286's or Zeniths -- educationally satisfactory and MUCH less expensive than comparable Mac-SE's ). Mac's are very nice, but there's the reality of school district budgets. The local elementary schools here bought a bunch of Commodore 64's on the "more bang for the buck" principle (the elementary schools are happy with LOGO, the Bank Street Writer, Print Shop, and the Carmen San Diego series). If the middle school were to ask, I'd recommend Laser 128's (although the local middle school HAS been buying IIgs's, they run little software that won't run on the Laser's AND they can't afford nearly enough IIgs's for classroom instruction -- the teachers mostly use the IIgs's with DataView projectors). /s Murph [Internet] or ...{psuvax1 or mcvax}!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall [UUCP] + Standard disclaimer applies ("The opinions expressed are my own" etc.)