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> Schools, (K-12, Univ) Didn't Apple make a great deal of their revenue in the early days (1976-1985) by selling to schools? I seem to recall that schools were
by mysterypie 2y ago
> Schools, (K-12, Univ)
Didn't Apple make a great deal of their revenue in the early days (1976-1985) by selling to schools? I seem to recall that schools were their main focus. A $3000 Apple II in 1980 would be $12,000 in today's money, and schools often bought many units. Is Karpathy's product really that different from an Apple Computer in how it would be marketed to schools?
- ghaff 2y agoThere were certainly universities that were "Apple shops" fairly early on. Probably mostly at the tail end of your date range and beyond though. Here's the story at Dartmouth: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/macdartmouth.html https://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/macdar... In 1980, Dartmouth actually had pretty democratized access to computing but it was pretty much exclusively on the timeshare mainframe.
- pico303 2y agoApple gave schools steep discounts, with the idea being that young people learning on Apple computers would have parents purchasing computers their kids were familiar with. Later, those kids would become adults purchasing the computers they grew up on.