Re: Apple Computers-collector's items?

[ckolar@mail.aocn.aurora.edu (Christopher Kolar)]

gabrielr@ucla.edu (Gabriel Rossman) writes:
>In article <4ud8c3$sk5@Venus.mcs.com>, ckolar@mail.aocn.aurora.edu
>(Christopher Kolar) wrote:
>> You would probably be surprised if you went and visited your local schools.
>>   Of the 66 that I deal with I would say that about 35 have functioning
>>   Apple II+ or IIe labs that they use every day.  It says a lot about
>>   the durability of those old machines (and a lot of other things as well).
>what really blows my mind is that apple didn't discontinue the worthless
>things until c. 93. It saddened me that schools would by more obsolete
>technology when they could get a less obsolete mac color classic w/ a IIe
>compatability card for the same price.

As recently as last sumer I was on my church's tech commettee, the teacher
  representatives' primary concern was backwards compatability with the old
  Apple II software on new Mac systems.  Most of the teachers that I deal
  with now are not nearly as attached to the old apples as they have
  started seeing Macs enter the school, but the attachment to these old
  "legacy systems" is remarkable.

--chris
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