Re: Amusing ad, blast from the past

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:35:00 GMT, brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian
Hammack) wrote:

[funny ad snipped]
>Pardon me while I laugh a whole bunch.  A //c's memory goes up to 1
>meg, there are a variety of "professional" programs for it, and it is
>compatable with XX,XXX programs designed for the ][ through //e, plus
>the Apple was in classrooms because of Apple's education sales plans!
>In the 80's you never heard of a school with Commodores, or without
>Apples.  The C=128 machine is a good beast, yes, but....  :)

Well, in the US Apple had a larger share of the school market.  In
Canada they didn't do so well.  When I first got to high school in
1981 the computer lab had one TRS-80 Model I and several Commodore PET
computers.  Most of the schools on military bases used PETs or CBM
8032s.

That is, until the government decided to standardize the comptuers in
schools and picked the Icon (I have no idea if that is spelled right
because I never actually saw one of these computers).

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