Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!crdgw1!jupiter!kassover From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Low Cost Mac ?( was:Re: Rumors of low cost $1000?) Message-ID: <7317@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 2 May 90 19:21:25 GMT References: <50116.26329100@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <89523@tiger.oxy.edu> <12149@wpi.wpi.edu> <3225@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <3235@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Distribution: usa Organization: Aule-Tek, Inc. Lines: 24 In article <3235@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> cs223101@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (CMSC 223/01011) writes: ... | Unfortunately, there are too many kinds of systems in the schools. My mother |is an elementary librarian. They started wtih Commodore 64's. Keeping them, |they added to that about 8 Apple GS's. Now they're getting 2 IBM clones. None |of the teachers know what ot buy for home use, since every year the schools |get something different. Perhaps they WOULDN'T jump at the chance to get a Mac |in there as well. Some free advice: Get *firmly* in mind what you want to do. Find software that does what you want. Then, and only then, find a machine that will run it. Almost anything else courts disaster. -- =================================================== David Kassover kassover@ra.crd.ge.com kassover@crd.ge.com