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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Educomputing 2000
Message-ID: <11480@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 90 10:17:38 GMT
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Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
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In article <8912301451.aa16052@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> abc@BRL.ARPA (Brinton Cooper) writes:
>
>In response to erickson@mfgmem.dec.com's argument "that the greatest
>threat to Apple's hold on the K-12 market will come as a result of
>IBM's release of OS/2 and the new bus architecture..." 
>Tamara <UNESTJ%UNCVX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> writes:
>
[....]
>The argument is even stronger.  In addition to thousands of dollars in
>software, school districts may have tens of thousands of dollars worth
>of Apple II computers in each elementary school.  My wife's public
>school has about 10 such machines on a server.  To move away from Apple
>would cost our county perhaps a half million dollars.  
[....]
>In this region, Apple and the Giant food chain are collaborating on a
>promotional to give away, typically, an Apple IIe for $125,000 in food
>store cash register receipts.  This only increases the installed base of
>II-class systems even more.  In addition, those few high schools that
>had Apple II machines have passed them over to the elementary schools,
>thus concentrating the installed base and making it more viable as more
>machines are available to the children at one time.
>
>I don't know who will benefit the most from all this.  According to
>InCider, Apple may abandon the II line in 1990.  Yet, the machines chug
>along.  Perhaps  Claris, Broderbund, and the Minnesota Educational
>Computing Consortium will benefit by continued software sales.


"Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice."

A few days ago I recieved the latest Apple Computer shareholders
report (owning a measly 40 shares :-), and scanning through it, I came
across several interesting items:

	a) The macintosh side of things gets a page and a half of
	   mention, with the 3 cpus introduced in the '89 year, and
	   the revealing of system 7.0 in the works.

	b) The GS gets 1/3 a page, with no mention of any system, cpu
	   or other soft/hardware upgrades.


	   Okay, this one is somewhat understandable.  But this one...
	
	c) There are several paragraphs about the Macintosh as used in
	   educational institutions.  NOTHING is mentioned about the
	   //e.

	d) furthermore, they go on to say that students that use
	   Macintoshes at school will turn into professionals that use
	   Macintoshes at work.

	Uh huh.  Now, I don't recall them explicitly saying K-12 or
college students, but there is little/no mention of the //e in K-12
situations.

I don't get this.  The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is
doing; doesn't, in fact, seem to be connected to the same body.  
	
Hmm... why don't we draft up a letter similar to the one just posted
to the FCC, but complaining to Apple about the representation that the
// series is getting?  Especially if this came from shareholders, but
all Apple // owners apply.  Sure, you can bitch and moan all over
Usenet, but remember, the people who make these decisions most likely
don't have access.  A little 'physical overflowing' of mailboxes
should bring a change...?

>>  Just my humble opinion
>
>Mine, too.
>
Me too.  I want a GS with the speed of a Mac ci, graphics of an
Amiga... but improved, naturally.  (hee hee ho ho...)

................
Chan Wilson -- cwilson@nisc.sri.com <or> cwilson@nic.ddn.mil
'A computer operator at SRI International'  
 I think, therefore, there is the distinct possibility that I exist.
 Furthermore, I find it likely that there are other people out there.
...UUCP/GS in research phase. More to come...