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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Larry's right!
Message-ID: <5321@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 90 01:38:35 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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Larry's right... possibly Atari's best
effort should be put into the education system..

Seems like much of Apple's initial success has
to be attributed to their establishing of themselves
in the student market. 

About two years after i graduated from Dartmouth, i
learned that the new Dartmouth students (freshmen) were
being handed Macintoshes at registration.  THey'd pick
up their class schedule and a Mac Plus.  THe cost
was built into the tuition.. though one was not
officially obligated to purchase a Mac.. 97% of the 
entering students in fact did go home with one...
(perhaps a current Dartmouth student can confirm this).

A logical outgrowth of this is a preponderance of
users who stay loyal to Apple. Were I a few
years younger, I'd probably be reading comp.sys.mac
instead of comp.sys.atari. I don't think
it is impossible for Atari to enter this market
and follow suit.. in fact, i think the time is
ripe for Atari to do so.  

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu