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...fashioned college protest right out of the '60s. This demonstration, however, had a contemporary twist: more than 100 angry students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo had marched into the president's office to demand a chance to buy Apple's Macintosh computer at a discount. The California manufacturer had been offering selected colleges its new machine, which retails for $2,495, for resale to students at a price of just over $1,000. Two dozen universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, accepted Apple's terms, ordering more than 50,000 computers...
...other colleges involved in the Apple Computer Consortium are waiting for their delivery of reduced price Macintosh personal computers, like Harvard...
Starting in the fall of 1984, many of Cornell University's Computer Sciences courses will be taught on the new Macintoshes, according to a story in the Cornell Daily Sun Furthermore, purchases of the Macintosh are expected to greatly alleviate pressure on the university's public terminals, said Richard W. Conway, computer science professor at Cornell...
Computer hijinks at the Big H... Many of the several hundred students who have signed onto the order list for the new Apple Macintosh personal computer may mistakenly believe they are in line to receive the computer. An official with Harvard's Equipment Management store says these students were only signing up to get information about where to buy the Apple once they come...
...main floor at the Superdome was dominated by the stands of the largest computer companies. Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment, NCR and IBM erected booths that dwarfed those of all but the biggest software firms. Apple's stand featured a 12-ft. scale model of its new Macintosh machine, and Chairman Steven Jobs delivered a keynote speech that tried to cast the event as a shootout between Apple...