Re: So what!

[nkelly@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Nicholas Kelly)]

AV> The Apple Computer Company richly deserves a comeuppence after what
AV> they did to their best customers and the school market. They
AV> invented the perfect educational computer in the GS and then ran
AV> the price up to above the Macs with the idea that the Macs would
AV> then look attractive and the schools would run to them. Bad news:
AV> The Macs were monochorome, and the schools love color, and IBM MS
AV> DOS clones were costing one-fifth to one-third as much and more
AV> people were writing software for them! 
AV> 
AV> Apple pissed off 30,000 school superintendents who had recommended
AV> the spending of $9 billion on Apple II software and now look like
AV> fools to their boards. These guys have no job security, tenure,
AV> etc. and if you think they are going to invest much more in Apple
AV> then you need help. 
AV> 
AV> Don't interfere with this survey. Let the truth tell. It always
AV> will in the lo ng run. 
AV> 
AV> Sincerely, Adrian Vance, CEO, AV Systems, Inc.

Not to be rude Adrian, but I doubt the school super's even noticed.
EVERYTHING in education is so dramatically overpriced that the computers
are just a drop in the bucket. The school bureaucrat's are only concerned
about covering their butts and finding efforts they can take credit for at
some school they never visit. 

This year I started my class with no scratch paper, no journals, no
nametags, no scissors, no nothing. I moved into a new room which hadn't
been painted in 10+ years. 

Meanwhile the people at both the district office and our cluster office
(another level of management) have all the PowerMacs, laserprinters, and
scanners I could ever imagine. Literally every person has one on their
desk.

I have one Mac in my room. It is an SE/30 that I found lying in a storage
cabinet on it's side. Someone told me that it had been lying there for 2
years. I found it had 1 meg and no keyboard. Now it has 5 megs and a
keyboard and has happily working away in my room. Many of you are aware of
the Apple IIe mini-lab. All those have been donated by individuals
(including the very nice Mitchell Spector here on this sub). I still pay
the shipping, buy the software, the cables, and everything else. Also if
the computer is incomplete, (missing ram or whatever) that comes out of
pocket as well.

These are the folks that are going to notice that one machine costs more
than the other???

        Nicholas Kelly


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