Re: Do schools still use Apple // computers?

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Tom O'Neill <tdon@delphi.com> wrote:
>Jason L. Asbahr <jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu> writes:
> 
>>If so, for what tasks do you primarily use them?  If you had to guess,
>>what percentage of computers in your school is Apple // compatible?
> 
>I have a copy of a PC magazine from a year ago (Oct 95) which put the
>percentage of 8-bit machines in the k-12 schools at just about 50%...most
>of those are/were Apple IIs...and the base number was 5.8 million machines,
>so roughly 2.9 million were 8-bit, mostly Apple IIs then.
>  
>Regards,
>Tom

In our local high school, our 50 Apple //e and 1 IIGS machines have moved
out from the computer lab into classrooms where teachers use them for
gradekeeping and printing out handouts.  This is a public school, so making
use of the machines is a must.

The lab now has Macs for the students to play with.

On the Apples, the main software used is AppleWorks 3.0.  The teachers love
them.

On the university campus, the psych dept. still has many Apple //e computers
in use.  They are connected to hardware that measures physiological data
from subjects.

The situation is now such that most II computers have "gone into hiding."
The schools like to show off their modern PC and Macs in their labs, but
the Apples are still being used behind the scenes.

-Scott G.