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From: robertm@dartvax.UUCP (Robert P. Munafo)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: MacIntosh and the Emporor's clothes - (nf)
Message-ID: <686@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 14:34:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 14:34:01 1984
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   I don't know about your univerity, but my university (Dartmouth) is
*not* requiring students to buy Macintosh computers.  Some of the
employees are being required to *use* Macs, but aside from that they're
not pushing it on us at all.  The college will have college-owned Macs
available for use to those students who do not buy their own.  Some of the
computer programming courses will involve programming Macs (in BASIC,
probably).
   !uiuccsb!grunwald seems to be a computer user, and, like John Crane
does not realize that the great majority of people who will be in the
market for these things are not experienced in programming, operating
systems, USENET, etc., like most of us are.  This includes roughly 95%
of the students at Dartmouth, and most of those students at other colleges
involved in the Apple University Consortium.

Robert P. Munafo  ( ho hum . . . )     ...!{decvax,linus}!dartvax!robertm