Re: Low Cost Mac ?( was:Re: Rumors of low cost $1000?)

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From: David Kassover
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 19:21

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In article <3235@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> cs223101@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (CMSC 223/01011) writes:
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|  Unfortunately, there are too many kinds of systems in the schools.  My mother
|is an elementary librarian.  They started wtih Commodore 64's.  Keeping them,
|they added to that about 8 Apple GS's.  Now they're getting 2 IBM clones.  None
|of the teachers know what ot buy for home use, since every year the schools
|get something different.  Perhaps they WOULDN'T jump at the chance to get a Mac
|in there as well.


Some free advice:

Get *firmly* in mind what you want to do.

Find software that does what you want.

Then, and only then, find a machine that will run it.

Almost anything else courts disaster.
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David Kassover
kassover@ra.crd.ge.com
kassover@crd.ge.com

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