Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!mtune!rkh
From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Price for //e card
Message-ID: <855@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 90 19:19:12 GMT
References: <6360169@ub.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <6360169@ub.cc.umich.edu> Tabakal@ub.cc.umich.edu writes:
>I'm somewhat surprised that no one has commented on the price for the
>new Macintosh LC //e emulation card.  Apple's press release states that
>it will be available in March '91 for $199.  I have to assume that
>they will make no profit on a card for this price.  Assume dealers
>will get it for about half of that.  So, Apple wants people to buy
>the LC for the house and put the card in so kids can come home and
>run Stickybear or Appleworks like they do in school.  But, this 
>doesn't really address the basic deficiency in their strategy.
>Schools aren't going to want to buy 1 Mac at around $1500 (school
>discount) when they can buy 2 //es for that price.  Unless Apple
>discontinues production of the //e, it's not going to work.

I suspect if the //e is discontinued, that Laser is going to have
a field day...

Either that or Tandy selling their low-end DOS box with a Trackstar
emulator board; the K-12 educational software base is A2 plus DOS,
not A2 plus Mac.

My H.S.-teacher wife agrees with you about the un-likelihood of schools
coughing up for LC's with emulators.  They can 'empower' about three
times as many desktops per dollar using //e's.  I've forwarded some
of the articles from the net about Apple pressuring schools into this
route to her boss and her former boss, now the asst. superintendent
for the school district.  Hopefully they won't buy the line.  I also
plan to get involved with the PTO team at my daughter's school to make 
sure they don't get suckered as part of Apple's current supermarket promotion.

						Bob Halloran
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