In a message dated 6/5/2005 3:57:07 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sun makes no such requirements with their discount programs. >> Right, the perception is IBM has abandoned .edu's and chosen not to compete for fear of losing a few shekles. They ought to be sponsoring programming competitions or robot wars or animation films something to get the juices flowing and the interest rekindled. We had two CE's build a "dancing car" from a repo'd drug bust programmable air-shocks, and a couple of industrial strength PS/2's bolted in the trunk. Even bowed at the end of the performance, toured a number of grade schools and was big hit and attention getter. Need a low end machine, a development suite and probably cross platform testing and debugging aids. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html