There 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 stor

There 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.