> On May 13, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: > > "undercut"??!? > I seriously doubt that the B&H "Black Apple" was cheaper. But, it had B&H's > credibility backing it up for skeptical school boards, who bought tons of B&H > AV equipment, but didn't know what a "personal computer" was. > >> I do recall now the local elementary & jr. high schools gobbled them up. >> (The B&H variant.) > > I knew a few teachers who got B&H Black Apples into the classroom, and THEN > were able to get the school board to let them buy Apples, because they were > cheaper, "just as good", and "completely compatible!" with the B&H.
Maybe the outfit I was working for was lowballing the B&H price, but we definitely had the price advantage over all the Apple dealers. Now part of that might have been because we were the only Apple(-ish) dealer in Ft. McMurray AB, and the only alternatives were the *very* greedy Apple dealers in Edmonton (a five+ hour drive south).
