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In article <48ab7e6497p.gillett@argonet.co.uk>, Peter Gillett
<p.gillett@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
[ Tony Beadle wrote on a donation to the school for non-acorn equipment ]
> > My hands are tied. Sorry Acorn but I fear your days are numbered.
  
> Macs are 'not Acorn equipment' and are nearly as nice to use as
> Acorns, apart from the single button mouse!

If the school has non-RiscPC Acorns. Then buying any modern computer is
going to leave the Acorn looking dated. The fact 310's are not as dated
as the PS2 is one your school is only going to find out with time.

However I can't see buying Mac's is really going to help. Get a set
of cheap PC's but concentrate on hardware first.

A good A3 printer, quality scanner, audio input, Eye-Balls, network
cards and software, big hard-drives, just one 17-inch monitor maybe
even 19-inch for demonstration.

If at all possible make the purchases direct. Check out the cheap
PC stuff, www.memax.co.uk , www.aria.co.uk getting the most of the
money. If your lucky they'll be some money to harmonise the
computer platforms with software. EasiWriter Pro for it's reading
and writing of MS Word documents. And in fact a bucket load of
freeware bit's and bobs.

The argument for Acorn's has always been that they teach cross-skills
better that PC's. Putting it into action before they leave school seems
a logical step. The day a pupil actually saves off they're work, walks
over to different computer running a similar application to the one
they were just using. Just because it's got a feature they now need.
Is the day you actually produced one that has a proper education in
the *use* of computers.

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