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From: MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET
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Subject: school-system-purchaser
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Date: 31 Jan 89 13:39:00 GMT
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Ha, even the IBM reps say they wouldnt by an ibm for their children!
Not that i do not like ibm, as i use apple II, IIe, IIgs, Mac, and apple.
Face it, the majority of good educational software is out for the apple!
Even though many companies are getting good curriculum on cd-rom for tandy
for k-12.  Pretty nice stuff, but costs are around $80,000 for software,
which is not really all that bad if you have a whole school system to buy for.

As for porting stuff over, yea i think a school district would ever get
around to doing that.

As for taking a salesman word on anything, get ready to get depressed!

The best thing to do is ask the salesman for already implemented systems, go
to that system, ask how its doing, get pros cons etc.  If they cant tell you
where they have a good system installed, say adios gringo!

The thing with education is, everybody re-envents the wheel, and 3/4 of the
time they re-envent the flat-tire.  A "good" educational system needs to be
developed where anybody could get information about what is installed where,
(anywhere in the country), and get information from that installation.

Scott Hutinger
mser001@ecncdc
>    Gag! Choke! $70,000? If you can invest that kind of money,
>why not buy a micro-vax and workstations- something that was designed
>with networking in mind? You could probably port all kinds of neat
>applications in.
buy a microvax?  Get serious, what are you going to do, get some hangman,
grep, m4, banner, or better yet, let them play su?  IBM for education?