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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Apple's Education sales and stats
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.180304.13700@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
- References: <01GO43XLP31C8WW17U@scorva>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:03:04 GMT
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- In article <01GO43XLP31C8WW17U@scorva> CAPTANSKI33@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CHRIS TANSKI) writes:
- >I don't think that teachers are turning to PC's in fact I think that most
- >schools are continuing to buy Apple II's and Macs. Mostly because IBM's
- >seem to be to complicated to use. And those companies know it. Why else do
- >you think Microsoft created Windows. Because they wanted IBM's to be more
- >like Mac's and the IIGS. No, I don't think apple's losing business to IBM.
- >It's probably the opposite.
-
- From what I can tell, schools are still happy to buy Apple IIs, but Apple
- is making them harder and harder to obtain in favor of the Mac. I don't
- know of any schools around here that "network" any of their machines
- (each computer has a disk drive) so they don't have any interest in
- doign a LAN with a few expensive Macintoshes.
-
- Once the Apple IIs are completely unavailable to educators, I think many
- more will begin switching to IBM clones, simply becuase they're cheap
- and prevailent in the computing world. Some will also stick to the
- Apple (Mac!) brand label, but they're really just too expensive for
- many (most?) school districts.
-
- I've also seen school catalogs from the educational suppliers like
- Sunburst and MECC, and the software offerings are mostly 128K Apple II
- and IBM, with relatively few Mac programs. Okay, this may change, but
- it still may be an important factor to many schools.
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