Re: Apple II lab for sale

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <1993Jun15.111540.10481@desire.wright.edu>, cse0735@desire.wright.edu writes:
|> A friend of mine was running a computer lab for a local school. This school has
|> now decided that IBM is the way of the future and are now selling off a lab
|> full of Apple IIs and Commodores. I offered to post his ad up here since the
|> PC fanatics there want them gone within three weeks. If you don't want to call
|> long distance, I will forward any email to him that I receive.
|> 
|> Chris Blouch
|> Dayton, OH

There was an interesting article in the May '93 Communications of the ACM about
this trend.  Actually, the whole issue was about Technology in K-12 Education,
but one article that caught my eye was "The Technology Infrastructure of U.S.
Schools," by Ronald E. Anderson.  There's a table accompanying the article,
titled "Types of computers in public schools (K-12), 1991-92" which looks like:

    Type of operating             Percent of all          Percent of 1990-91
	 system                      computers               new systems*
    -----------------             --------------          ------------------
    Apple II                            61%                     39%
    Apple Macintosh                      5                      26
    MSDOS/PCDOS                         24                      80
    Other                               10                     -45**

    *  "New systems" consists of purchased minus disposed units.
    ** The "Other" category includes mostly old systems that were disposed,
       which yields a negative percentage. [huh?]

One part of the article says:

    Apple II and IIgs systems still dominate elementary schools.  About two-
    thirds of the computers used for instruction are Apple II or IIgs systems
    and many schools continue to buy more.  However, the IBM PC and compatibles,
    along with the Macintosh, predominate in the plans for new purchases by
    both elementary and secondary schools.  The secondary schools have acquired
    more Intel/MS-DOS (IBM PC and compatibles) computers than Apple IIs.

and:
 
    The number of Apple Macintosh computer units is still rather small in both
    elementary schools (5%) and secondary schools (13%).  Furthermore, both
    elementary and high schools planned to acquire more IBM compatibles than
    Macintoshes during the 1992-93 school year.

The rest of the article (and much of the whole CACM issue) describes the trend
toward multimedia and networking of school computers, both of which are mostly
built-in to the Apple IIgs.  I leave you to draw your own conclusions.

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