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From: nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hardware idea (was: Proposed Amiga killer)
Summary: Build a better machine
Keywords: Education, Apple //, Apple II
Message-ID: <1974@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 26 Mar 90 13:03:32 GMT
References: <35090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <112@gorf.UUCP>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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In article <112@gorf.UUCP>, rms@gorf.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada) writes:
> 
> If anyone wants to break into the educational computing K-12 market,
> their machine has to have Apple //e compatibility.  That's it.  No
> excuses.  (I would give a dissertation on why, but let it rest at
> that the Apple // dominates that market.)
> 

This definitly does NOT seem to be the case! Here in Columbus, somebody gave
away two A500's to schools. I don't know if it was CBM or a local dealer. A 
teacher from one of the two schools, who was responsible for his schools' 
Amiga, talked briefly to our users group. He stated that although the school 
has only the one Amiga and at least 12 Apples, the students and teachers are
both going crazy over the Amiga. This is a grade school and even at the young
age of the students, they are discovering the power and potential of the Amiga.
I also talked to a couple of friends who are teachers in Washington State and
they confirmed what has been said here and many other places repeatedly - that
schools aren't picky, they take what they can get. And the reason they have so
many Apples in the schools isn't because they are Apples, but because they are
available!  

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