Re: Save the Apple ][gs - CONTACT your local schools...

[chrisw@eagle.ais.net (Chris Wicklein)]

There Ain't No LIfe Nowhere (rocketusa@delphi.com) wrote:
: Hi ho!  Reading the newspapers I saw that the local elementary school
: was buying 25 computers for close to $100,000. That's $4000 per computer
: or so, Macs, they are planning to get.

	This is common place today.  Our local district converted a 
number of IIGSes into PowerMacs.

: These were the computers they were replacing?  For elementary school
: students, these are surely enough - and $100,000 could be spent better
: on other things.

	However, school funding is a very odd creature.  Often schools 
are motivated to "spend all they are alloted this year, or loose the 
funding next year."  They may be buying new computers to get the money spent.

: Of course Mac OS or Windows 95 will look better than prodos, but 6.0.1
: should be good enough for any grade school and the projects they do.
: Darren Johnson

	GS 6.0.1 will be fine if the lab has a site license for ORCA/M 
and the kids start developing their own programs, but no one else is 
going to.  One reason the future of the GS in schools is bleak is because 
so many machines are still floppy bound, low memory, slow, if not //es.  
I just received the new Quality catalog.  90% of educational software for 
an Apple II is 128k //e specific, and that which does support the GS 
requires 256k (so it's not running under 6.0.1 for sure.)  

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