Apple Donates Millions Of Dollars In Equipment To Schools Across The US
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In an unanticipated move this week, Apple Computers has generously donated Millions of Dollars worth of computer equipment to schools across America. Because the computers are a little dated, we could not get an exact worth, but the donation works out to tens of millions of computers.
When we contacted Apple we were shifted around a few times before finally being dumped in the lap of PR employee Shelly Korne, "We had all of these machines taking up space in warehouses across the mid-west... We heard that there was a severe shortage in many schools... It seemed like a good fit."
After talking to Principals across the nation, we have learned that the vast majority of these new computers are actually Apple II (or Apple ][ we are told) and Apple II g's although there is apparently a few commodores and even a handful of Atari 800XL's, although, Shelly Korne could not explain why Apple had these competitors systems.
"Of course we are grateful for donations of any kind..." says Principal John Womack of Windy Hill middle school outside of Harrisburg Pennsylvania, "and they are certainly better than nothing, which is what we had previously!"
But not everyone was so positive. Kathy Chavez, an English teacher in Arizona had this to say, "Hello!!! The screens only come in cyan, there are no USB ports, so we couldn't upgrade to a webcam even if we could afford the $50, I am pretty sure that the laser printer in the office isn't compatible, and don't even get me started on the sound produce when these are running..."
Jerry Wiltz, a Board of Education member in Kansas was even more succinct, "Can you even get 5 1/4 inch disks? Or was it 5 1/2?!?" That being said, these computers are appropriate for the school board that voted to stop teaching the theory of evolution!
When we tried to contact Shelly Korne again we found out that she had been sacked for talking to us. But we did convince Tom Harris, another employee to spill the beans after promising that he would remain anonymous; "It's like this, we had planned on digging a big hole in New Mexico and burying the approximately 12 million computers, but the sheer amount of mercury and lead that would have put directly into the areas ground water would have been very, very bad... Besides, we buried a bunch of computers in the late 90's and got in big trouble over the whole thing!"
In an unanticipated move this week, Apple Computers has generously donated Millions of Dollars worth of computer equipment to schools across America. Because the computers are a little dated, we could not get an exact worth, but the donation works out to tens of millions of computers.
When we contacted Apple we were shifted around a few times before finally being dumped in the lap of PR employee Shelly Korne, "We had all of these machines taking up space in warehouses across the mid-west... We heard that there was a severe shortage in many schools... It seemed like a good fit."
After talking to Principals across the nation, we have learned that the vast majority of these new computers are actually Apple II (or Apple ][ we are told) and Apple II g's although there is apparently a few commodores and even a handful of Atari 800XL's, although, Shelly Korne could not explain why Apple had these competitors systems.
"Of course we are grateful for donations of any kind..." says Principal John Womack of Windy Hill middle school outside of Harrisburg Pennsylvania, "and they are certainly better than nothing, which is what we had previously!"
But not everyone was so positive. Kathy Chavez, an English teacher in Arizona had this to say, "Hello!!! The screens only come in cyan, there are no USB ports, so we couldn't upgrade to a webcam even if we could afford the $50, I am pretty sure that the laser printer in the office isn't compatible, and don't even get me started on the sound produce when these are running..."
Jerry Wiltz, a Board of Education member in Kansas was even more succinct, "Can you even get 5 1/4 inch disks? Or was it 5 1/2?!?" That being said, these computers are appropriate for the school board that voted to stop teaching the theory of evolution!
When we tried to contact Shelly Korne again we found out that she had been sacked for talking to us. But we did convince Tom Harris, another employee to spill the beans after promising that he would remain anonymous; "It's like this, we had planned on digging a big hole in New Mexico and burying the approximately 12 million computers, but the sheer amount of mercury and lead that would have put directly into the areas ground water would have been very, very bad... Besides, we buried a bunch of computers in the late 90's and got in big trouble over the whole thing!"
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