On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mark wrote:
>> Basic answer is MS took a page from Apple & Borland ...
>
> It didn't seem to help Apple or Borland all that much.
Not today. But in years past, every school in the country was filled with
Apple //e's, because Apple just about gave them away. And so every school kid
in the nation asked Mom & Dad for an Apple //e (and not an IBM, or a Tandy,
or...).
Better still (for Apple), in NH, the purchasing agreement lasted far longer
then the useful life of the Apple //e. NH schools were still buying "new"
Apple //e computers into the mid-1990s. These were 8-bit machines with 64 KB,
no hard drives, and composite video. Apple must have loved it.
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