MikeDijital777 Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 18 hours ago, zzip said: I think the real question is whether Atari or Commodore were serious in chasing the education market at that time? Didn't seem like it. My school was all Apple, and they did start getting IIgs's while I was there, not sure if they count as 16-bit machines. Commodore tried with the Pet in the early early days, and I believe later on with the Commodore 16. but I don't think they ever tried with 16 bit stuff, plus I think by the time Atari and Commodore where dabbling in 16 bit, Apple had a strong arm on the school market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 15 hours ago, Keatah said: Specialty shop or not, there were many of them within driving distance. Surprised to see them live from the late-70's into the mid-80's as they weren't busy. Not like a Gamestop or other botique shop of today. Sure but they were selling machines that cost a couple thousand dollars, so I'm sure there was a decent-sized margin / commissions there, so they could afford run more like a car dealer and only sell a handful a day. There's not much margin on the stuff Gamestop sells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 On 12/4/2020 at 10:05 PM, ClausB said: My progressive high school teacher in 1976 got two Altair 8800a S100 boxes with 16K and cassette interfaces. One on a Teletype with paper tape and one on a video terminal. We learned BASIC and had fun. His article, page 10: cn0777.pdf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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