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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Subject: Re: Apple's Education sales & stats
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.035824.5694@cco.caltech.edu>
- Keywords: some interesting stats
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- References: <1992Aug27.141552.9752@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug28.010939.3525@utstat.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:58:24 GMT
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- philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
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- >Hmm...these statistics are very odd. Do theyrefer to the number of computers
- >sold in the 91/92 school year? Just to be clear here, were there 3 million
- >computers sold to schools in the US during 91/92, and only 7.8% used the
- >Finder (GS/Mac)? I find this just unbelievable.
-
- I don't... K-12 teachers are notoriously computer phobic; they are used to
- sticking in disks and turning on the computer, not mousing around through
- folders. Add to this that most school budgets preclude hard drives except
- for administrators' systems -- networks and remote booting seem to be fairly
- popular too, and there's a lot of interest in Ethernet AND TCP/IP.
-
- >If these figures are to be believed, it would appear that schools are not
- >moving to the Finder but to PC's. This is most discouraging.
-
- Precisely. We've know this would happen for years; I'd like to say I've tried
- to warn Apple but the fact is I never got to talk to anyone in a position to
- do anything about it...
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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