jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") (04/02/88)
This is a quote from Tom Weishaar's "Open-Apple"....
"Apple's network and education marketing wizards, apparently still
frightened that the secret of the Apple // will get out to universities and
businesses, took extra care to see that only elementary and high school
teachers and administrators heard about the availability of Apple //s on
Appleshare (in fact, Apple's sales brochure isn't even titled 'Appleshare
and the Apple //,' but 'Appleshare in K-12 Education').....
".....There were two conferences at each site [[concerning Appleshare
networking]]....One was the K-12 conference (green program, green badge)
and the other was the Higher Education conference (rose conference,
rose badge). Door monitors (Apple employees) prevented people with
the wrong color badge from entering sessions not suited for their market..."
In my opinion, Appleshare could be the best thing that has happened
to the // series since the //e as far as making it a viable and significant
player in EVERY market, especially the university and business ones.
Why? the Macintosh (and esp. the Mac II) is overkill for many applications,
but up till now, one needed a Mac to work on a file-sharing network. Further,
many college students (including me) can't afford a Mac, even with the
mammoth discount awarded to AUC colleges (so much for the "computer
for the rest of us"; I guess they meant rich people). Besides, I want to program
on the fly, which can't be done on a Mac.
Anyway, Apple shouldn't be so protective of the Mac. It makes them
look a little ridiculous.... (C'mon Sculley, this is damned
childish... you're grown up now.)
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Capt. Albatross
jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu
disclaimer: material excerpted from 'Open-Apple' published by Tom Weishaar.
It's a great publication; if you don't get it, get it.
Otherwise, the opinions are mine for my use and abuse.